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by David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:16:03 AM
By the look of things, the
American public just might vote
Congress out of office this
November – Republican and
Democrat alike.
But Democratic National
Committee Chairman Tim Kaine
sounds downright stoic, even as
he admits that his own
party could lose more than 28
House seats and four Senate
seats.
Kaine says Democrats must
accept voter anger as a fact of
life in an economy that is
recovering only slowly from the
worst recession since the 1930s.
“Congress has to pay attention to
it. But we also just have to
acknowledge that in a tough
time, there’s going to be a lot of
dissatisfaction,” he told
MSNBC.
How much dissatisfaction is a
lot?
A new CNN poll says that 63
percent of U.S. voters want the
bunch in Congress out of office.
Only 34 percent say they can
stay. Fifty-six percent say most
congressional Democrats do not
deserve to be re-elected, about
the same number who say most
congressional Republicans don’t
deserve re-election either.
That’s quite a challenge for
incumbents nine months before
mid-term elections, when all 435
seats in the House will be up for
grabs along with one-third of
the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate.
The ax could fall hard on
Democrats and Kaine seems to
have no illusions about it.
“Presidential mid-terms since
Teddy Roosevelt have been very
tough. The average president
loses 28 House seats, four Senate
seats and governor’s races. And
we’re not living in average
times. We’re living in times of
significant economic anxiety,”
the former Virginia governor
said.
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analysts expected House
Democrats to lose no more than
25 seats.
B u t t h e
challenge doesn’t mean Democra
ts can ’t do well, according to
Kaine, if they recognize
voters’ economic troubles and
reinforce the idea that their
party has helped under President
Barack Obama’s leadership.
Kaine and other Democrats
used Wednesday’s anniversary
of the passage of Obama’s $787
billion stimulus package to claim
credit for stabilizing the
economy after its worst-since-the
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-Depression free-fall last year.
White House economic adviser
Christina Romer sounded a
shade upbeat about the jobs
picture, despite a near-record
unemployment rate that could
be the real killer for incumbents
in Congress.
“Right now, the employment
numbers look basically stable,”
Romer told ABC’s Good
Morning America days after the
U.S. jobless rate for January fell
to a five-month low of 9.7
percent. “We think we’re going
to see positive job growth by
spring.”
The jobless rate for Congress
won’t be announced until early
November.
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22,500 followers
by Tabassum Zakaria (Front
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Submitted at 2/16/2010 2:38:14 PM
Basically all White House Press
Secretary Robert Gibbs had to do
was turn up … and they followed
by the thousands.
Gibbs launched his first tweet
on Twitter@PressSec this
Saturday asking for micro-
blogging tips and by Tuesday he
had more than 22,500 followers.
(OK so there may be a touch of
envy from some of us still
struggling in the three-digit
follower realm).
Asked whether he was sending
all the tweets — eight so far —
himself, Gibbs replied:
“Inexplicably, yes.”
It was Gibbs’ first press briefing
since he launched on Twitter. So
of course all his comments about
tweeting were immediately
tweeted by White House
reporters.
Deputy Press Secretary Bill
Burton(with 58 tweets and 5,000
followers, but who’s counting?)
started tweeting earlier this year.
And he tweeted while Gibbs
spoke Tuesday to correct what he
saw as a wrong tweet about
Yucca Mountain, which the
reporter subsequently deleted.
Gibbs has used most of his eight
tweets to point out stories he
likes.
Taliban roadside bombs in
“It’s been fascinating to watch
just over the few days since I’ve
joined it,” he said.
Gibbs joked that he has found
the 140-character length limit for
tweets a bit of a constraint, and
said, “I’m trying to figure out
how to shorten — there’s a
whole language, obviously, and
typing with numbers and
symbols that has evaded me.”
He still needs to get down the
lingo. “I could have Twittered
that,” Gibbs said at one point in
the briefing. Er, that should be
“tweeted.”
Gibbs’ and Burton’s tweets are
subject to the Presidential
Records Act which means they
could be archived along with any
responses to them, similar to
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Hillary Clinton wouldn’t flee to
Canada if Sarah Palin was president
by Arshad Mohammed (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 12:55:50 PM
What did students in Saudi
Arabia want to ask Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton about?
Republican Sarah Palin.
One young man asked Clinton:
“Does the prospect of Sarah
Palin one day becoming
president, maybe, terrify you?”
and whether the Secretary of
State might consider moving to
Canada — or even Russia — in
response.
“Well, the short answer is no. I
will not be emigrating,” Clinton
replied with a smile. “I will be
visiting as often as I can.”
Clinton, who ran for the
Democratic presidential
nomination last year, is no
stranger to politics, but said she
would not speculate on who
Republicans might nominate in
2012 to run for president. Palin
was John McCain’s running
mate in the 2008 election.
“You know our political seasons
never end. It is part of the
American political environment
that people are always
speculating on who will run for
president, and who will become
president, and I’ve gone through
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said.
Wrapping up a three-day Gulf
trip, Clinton spoke at a college in
Jeddah where she faced
questions about Palin and the
U.S. healthcare system, but
relatively little discussion of one
of her signature issues —
promoting women’s rights.
A young woman asked about the
U.S. healthcare system. Clinton
had unsuccessfully tried to
implement healthcare reforms in
the early 1990s when she was
first lady. Now President Barack
Obama’s efforts have stalled
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“I tried to do what President
Obama is trying to do,” Clinton
said. “And I often say I have the
scars to show for it.”
Clinton ended her trip by
catching a ride home with
General David Petraeus after her
plane had some mechanical
problems. Most of her traveling
party had to return on
commercial flights.
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Conference Calls Made
Simpler
by Nadine Heintz (Inc.com)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:24:24 AM
We're halfway through our
"virtual office" experiment here
at Inc., and online collaboration
tools have been crucial to
keeping us connected. That's one
reason I was particularly
intrigued by a new click-to-call
teleconferencing feature
introduced by PBworks, a
company that helps coworkers
collaborate using wikis and
microblogging.
The new voice collaboration
features lets users make
conference calls on the fly
simply by clicking the names of
contacts. The service does all the
dialing, contacting invited parties
on their regular phones, so
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there's no need to set up calls in
advance and e-mail everyone
with dial-in info. Another plus:
You can record each call and e-
mail a link to the recording to
meeting participants.
The service, which is currently
in beta testing, is available to
PBworks' business and legal
edition customers, as well as
those using a free trial of the
business edition. It will be free
during beta testing, with a cap of
200 call minutes for free trials.
After beta testing ends, business
and legal edition customers will
receive 200 minutes a month at
no extra charge. Heavier users
can purchase a calling plan
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for 300 minutes.
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Obama sounds the alarm for clean
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Submitted at 2/16/2010 12:11:54 PM
President Barack Obama
sounded the alarm on Tuesday as
he made his push for more
nuclear power in the U.S. energy
mix — literally.
He toured an electrical workers
union training center in
Maryland before announcing the
multibillion-dollar plan. During
the tour, he talked to workers
being trained in computer-
assisted design, examined power
management technology and fire
alarm systems.
“You can pull one if you
want,” Rhett Roe, a union
member who has been teaching
since 1985, told the smiling
president as they stood before a
wall filled with bright red alarm
boxes.
Obama did, and flashing lights
and loud beeping ensued. “I need
this whenever the press is
around,” Obama joked, as a horn
blared.
The alarm system was for
training and did not summon the
fire department. Obama alluded
to his experience again before
making his announcement, with
a nod to an earlier incident that
might not have ended so happily.
“I was just mentioning that I got
a chance to pull the first fire
alarm since I was in junior high.
And I didn’t get in trouble for
it,” he said, to applause and
laughter from the crowd.
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Of all the unforeseen disasters to
befall the Winter Olympics in
Vancouver over the past week, a
lack of good quality ice must be
among the most unexpected.
The latest setback, which came
hours after the Vancouver
Organising Committee were
forced to refund 28,000 standing
-room tickets at the
snowboarding venue because of
melting snow, caused the men's
500m speed skating event to be
delayed as malfunctioning ice
machines left slush and pools of
water on the surface.
Meanwhile, a surging crowd of
Olympic partygoers caused a
barricade to collapse during a
free concert, leaving 19 people
injured. Nine people were taken
to a hospital for further
evaluation, although none with
serious injuries.
A section of barricade in front of
the stage collapsed on Tuesday
night during a set by the
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The band stopped playing
immediately and asked the
crowd to step back. The rest of
the concert at Live City
Yaletown and a fireworks
display were called off. The city
said the barricade will be
replaced and the site will reopen
on Wednesday.
Two of the three resurfacing
machines which broke down
caused a delay of more than an
hour at the speed skating event,
throwing the athletes off their
routines. "This was a drama.
This was definitely not at an
Olympic level. It's laughable,"
Jan Bos, the Dutch skater, said.
Bos, who finished 29th, put his
drink bottle down on the ice,
claiming that on a normal
surface, the bottle would slide
for ten meters. On the Olympic
rink, it fell over immediately.
It was the second time the
machines had broken down in
three days, prompting red-faced
officials to bring in a machine
from Calgary. Problems with the
ice is just the latest setback at a
Games where the weather has
refused to co-operate. For
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the snow did come, it was so
severe that it forced the men's
super-combined event to be
postponed.
The super-combined was only
the latest alpine event to be
disrupted. The women's
snowboard cross had to be
delayed because of rain and fog,
while the women's downhill
training was cancelled because
of wet weather and slushy snow.
"It's getting ridiculous how much
changing of the schedule and
shuffling around has been
happening," Thomas Vonn, the
husband and coach of American
skiing star Lindsey Vonn, said.
The Games has been struggling
to recover from a sequence of
setbacks since the opening
ceremony last Friday. The death
of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-
year-old Georgian, in luge
training on Friday, only hours
before the opening ceremony,
was a tragedy with which these
Games will forever be
associated.
The problems continued into the
opening ceremony where the
most public of Vancouver’s own
goals tarnished the iconic
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but only three giant fuses
emerged from the ground for
them to light. Olympic fans then
discovered that they were unable
to get within 50 metres of the
cauldron and were only able to
take pictures from behind a three
-metre-high fence.
The athletes haven't escaped,
with timing errors in both the
men's and women's biathlon
causing chaos. A Swedish skier
was held up at her start gate for
14 seconds, while two male
competitors were told to set off
too early. Officials later
corrected for the errors. "It is
embarrassing," Norbert Baier,
the International Biathlon
Union's technical delegate, said.
"Why do we have this
incompetence?"
Despite widespread criticism
across the world, organisers
continue to defend the Games.
Mark Adams, the director of
communications for the
International Olympic
Committee, claimed he did not
recognise the Games as
portrayed by the British press.
However, plenty of criticism has
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home, with the Montreal Gazette
among many regional
newspapers in Canada who have
proclaimed the Games as money
poorly spent. Despite this,
Adams chose to reserve his
criticism for the British media.
"You wonder which city they're
reporting from," Adams said.
"What they're saying bears
absolutely no relation to what
I've seen at the competitions. It's
been amazing. You wonder
where these people have been."
"We continue to be impressed by
the level of organization,"
Adams added. "If we had the
decision [to stage the Games]
again, we would take the same
decision. It would come to
Vancouver."
The bright spots have been rare,
but moguls skier Alexandre
Bilodeau did give Canada its
first gold medal in three home
Olympics on Monday to salvage
something from the wreckage of
Vancouver's tarnished Olympics.
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Feb 2010
There was a furious reaction in
London after Cristina Fernandez
de Kirchner, the Argentine
President, issued a decree that all
ships heading to or from the
Falklands must apply for permits
before entering her country's
waters.
The move was seen as an
attempt to strangle supplies to
the burgeoning British-backed
oil industry off the Falklands
where a £20 million rig, the
Ocean Guardian, is due to arrive
within days.
It has reportedly been tracked by
Argentine military jets on its
long journey being pulled by a
tug from Invergordon in
Scotland.
The Argentine decree came as
President Kirchner, who once
called herself "Evita with a
clenched fist," faces political
troubles at home.
She has a presidential election
next year and her poll rating has
fallen to just 20 per cent
following rows over taxes on
farmers and debt repayments.
In a stern rebuke, the Foreign
Office insisted Argentina had no
authority to make
pronouncements concerning the
waters surrounding the
Falklands.
It said: "Regulations governing
Argentine territorial waters are a
matter for the Argentine
authorities – this does not affect
Falkland Islands territorial
waters, which are controlled by
the island authorities."
There were calls for the
Argentine ambassador to be
given a dressing down and
Conservative MP Andrew
Rosindell, Secretary of the
Parliamentary all-party group on
the Falklands, said it was
"unacceptable behaviour."
He said: "Any attempt by
Argentina to claim any sort of
rights of sovereignty over that
region is something we should
take very seriously. I don't think
we should appease Buenos Aires
– we found out what happens last
time."
Argentina invaded the Falklands
in 1982 leading to a conflict that
lasted lasted 74 days and cost the
lives of 255 British soldiers, and
649 Argentine soldiers.
Geologists estimate there are up
to 60 billion barrels of oil in the
seabed near the Falklands and a
British company, Desire
Petroleum, is due to begin
drilling 100 miles north of the
islands before the end of the
month.
The Argentine decree did not
say what action it would take if
ships did not comply with its
request to apply for permits.
It was not clear whether
Argentina intended its order to
apply only to its internationally
recognised waters or to the full
area it claims, which covers a
vast stretch of ocean reaching
beyond the Falklands to
Antarctica.
British ships heading to the
Falklands would still be able to
resupply without entering official
Argentine waters by stopping in
Chile, Uruguay or the Ascension
Islands.
Emma Edwards, a member of
the Falklands Legislative
Assembly, said Argentina would
risk an international incident if it
tried to block ships coming
through international or Chilean
waters.
She said: "I think this is a last-
ditch attempt by the Argentinian
government to try to prove to
their people that they are doing
something."
Last week a Danish-owned ship,
the Thor Leader, was stopped
from leaving the southern
Argentine port of Campana. The
Argentine government claimed it
was carrying drilling pipes to the
Falklands but the company that
made the equipment said it was
in fact heading for the
Mediterranean.
Alan Mendoza, executive
director of the Henry Jackson
Society think tank, said
Argentina's diplomatic sabre-
rattling may have been
encouraged by perceptions that
Britain is preparing to scale back
defence spending.
Dr Mendoza said: "This is a
petty move on behalf of the
Argentine authorities and may
have been spurred by recent
discussions in the UK about
scything the defence budget of
items that would allow the
possible defence of the Falkland
Islands in the future."
Sir Nicholas Winterton,
chairman of the Parliamentary all
-party Falklands group, said the
Argentine move was "pathetic
and useless" and was intended
for "internal purposes."
Humphrey Maud, who served as
Britain's first ambassador to
Argentina after the Falklands
conflict, said: "They have at their
heart a very crude feeling that if
there's oil there, they want a very
large part of it."
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of Sports NBC and Dick Ebersol
aren't winning over a lot of fans
with the station's coverage of the
Winter Olympics. One of the
network's most vociferous critics
is Henry Blodget over at the
Business Insider, who is calling
NBC " the network that prevents
you from watching the
Olympics." In fact, in this rather
stinging critique, Blodget takes
aim at some of NBC's biggest
advertisers --- which I can't say I
disagree with.
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Argentina to take 'adequate measures' to stop
British oil exploration off Falklands
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“If it’s going to Las Malvinas
(the name used for the islands by
Argentina) it will have to
had no jurisdiction in the area.
“This does not affect Falkland
Islands territorial waters which
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Feb 2010
Officials said Mullah Abdul
Ghani Baradar and his unnamed
comrades had disclosed
information about their
operations which would help
unravel their organisation and
lead to more arrests.
Mullah Baradar, who is second
only to its supreme leader
Mullah Omar, was arrested along
with several other militant
figures ten days ago, as they
were establishing a new Taliban
command and training centre in
Pakistan's commercial capital.
Goldman and Greece: Another Sad Swap Chapter?
by Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:10:00 PM
Filed under: Goldman Sachs
Group (GS), Financial Crisis
Goldman Sachs ( GS), may (and
we emphasize may, because
Senior diplomatic sources said
the movement's leadership was
targeted as it moved from its
base in Quetta, Balochistan, to
Karachi.
President Barack Obama's
special envoy for Afghanistan
and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke
last night hailed the arrest as a
"significant development" in the
war against the Taliban. "There
is very little I am going to say
here on this subject but it is a
significant development he got
caught," he said.
Major General Athar Abbas,
chief spokesman for the Pakistan
Army, said it had carried out
extensive checks to prove the
man they arrested was Mullah
Baradar, but declined to give
further details of his arrest.
"At the conclusion of detailed
identification procedures, it has
been confirmed that one of the
persons arrested happens to be
Mullah Baradar. The place of
arrest and operational details
cannot be released due to
nothing has been proven yet by
European Union regulators),
have arranged a currency swap
and/or other transactions that
enabled debt-ridden Greece to
hide or mask its large budget
deficit, Bloomberg News
reported Wednesday.
security reasons," he said.
Senior government officials
claimed both Mullah Baradar
and those arrested with him were
giving information they believed
would lead to others in the
Taliban's new Karachi and Sindh
headquarters. They are
understood to be in the custody
of the country's ISI intelligence
agency in the city.
"We're now confident we can
bust the whole network they've
established in Karachi and Sindh.
We're expecting some more
arrests in the days to come," a
senior military official told The
Daily Telegraph.
He said they Taliban leadership
had switched from Quetta to
Karachi, a city of 16 million
people, because it believed they
would be harder to detect there.
The timing and motivation
behind Mullah Baradar's arrest
was the subject of speculation
last night amid claims he had
been in contact with President
Karzai in recent months and was
If the above is proven true, it
in favour of peace talks.
A spokesman for the Maldives
government last night confirmed
Taliban figures and Afghan
government officials had met for
talks on the islands shortly
before last month's London
Conference. The outcome of the
talks is unclear.
Leading Washington-based
Pakistan analyst Arif Rafiq
suggested Islamabad had finally
moved to arrest Mullah Baradar
to win favour with the West so it
would be able to influence the
terms of a any new Afghan
settlement following the troop
surge. Islamabad wants to ensure
it is seen as the guarantor of any
deal so that Indian influence is
minimised.
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with FTC
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Submitted at 2/17/2010 7:44:00 AM
Electronic Privacy Information
Center says the Federal Trade
Commission should compel
Google to decouple Buzz from
Gmail's address book, among
other things.
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Study: Women
love games but
fear social stigmas
by Don Reisinger
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 5:09:00 PM
Q Interactive finds that women
enjoy playing social games but
mostly refuse to play them in the
workplace and are concerned
with stigmas related to gaming.
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Google has been forced into a clock. Yesterday, comments Google’s chief executive Eric Campbell Soup Co. ( CPB) than 60% of the company's
hasty revamp of its social m a d e b y G o o g l e ' s c h i e f Schmidt blamed "confusion" lowered its forecast for fiscal condensed line will be spruced
networking service Buzz after executive seemed to play down over the problems surrounding 2010 sales. The company now up with product improvements,
the new feature was met with a the problem, fuelling the PR Buzz. expects sales to grow 2.5% to sodium reductions, updated
storm of criticism because of disaster. “I would say that we did not 3.5% during the current fiscal packaging, and a fresh marketing
gaping privacy flaws. The search firm has admitted understand how to communicate year, down from its previous approach.
The company today announced that the Buzz system was not Google Buzz and its privacy,” projection for sales growth of Continue reading Campbell
it will introduce a prominent adequately tested before it was he said. “There was a lot of 4% to 5%. However, earnings Soup Slips After Slashing
"kill button" that will allow unveiled, with only internal confusion when it came out on for 2010 are still expected to rise Guidance
p e o p l e t o t u r n o f f B u z z Google employees using the Tuesday and people thought that 9% to 11% on an annualized Campbell Soup Slips After
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Central to the row is a feature than members of public also their e-mail addresses and fiscal 2009. appeared on BloggingStocks on
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including one woman who said campaigners said they had happens in the sense that Google makes Tuesday Night
that an abusive ex-husband could lodged privacy complaints with nobody’s personal information
Music: Keith
now follow her every move.
Google has now apologised,
American government agencies.
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by Caroline McCarthy
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You know all those people who
push their Foursquare and
Gowalla locations out onto
Twitter? Now there's an
aggregator for aspiring crooks
who want to rob their houses.
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Serious crime squad heads UK
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The Serious Organised Crime
Agency (Soca) has been brought
in to investigate the use of
British passports in the
assassination of Hamas
commander Mahmoud al-
Mabhouh.
Soca, set up in 2004, disclosed
tonight that it was taking the lead
in the investigation to discover
how British documents had been
involved in the operation
believed to have been carried out
by Mossad, the Israeli secret
service.
One Whitehall official told The
Times: “The evidence so far
makes very bad reading but until
we can get all the facts about
exactly what happened, we
won’t be in a position to decide
what action to take. We have to
be clear about the facts before
we slag people off.”
If the evidence incriminated
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Israel, the official said it would
be up to the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office to
summon the Israeli ambassador
and demand an explanation.
Soca is in touch with the UK
Identity and Passport Service to
clarify that the passports of six
of the alleged assassins were
based on genuine British
documents. Soca is an
intelligence-led agency with law
enforcement powers.
Speaking on LBC radio today,
Gordon Brown confirmed that he
took the misuse of British
identity documents very
seriously and had ordered a full
investigation which was now
under way.
"We have got to carry out a full
investigation into this. The
British passport is an important
document that has got to be held
with care," said the Prime
Minister.
"The evidence has got to be
assembled about what has
actually happened and how it
happened and why it happened,
and it is necessary for us to
conclude that before we can
make statements."
Google’s mastery of internet i t s e l f e m b r o i l e d i n U . S . repurposed into a colorful (and it be great if Basurama could
search technology is unrivaled, diplomatic spats with China and free) playground featuring bring some of its magic to
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The senior Whitehall sources
said: “There is now an active
investigation underway and
Soca is the lead agency which is
in close contact with the Dubai
authorities. We have not yet got
in touch with the Israelis because
all the evidence has to be
checked first.
“We’re not pointing a finger at
anyone at the moment, we’re not
going to jump the gun until we
have the evidence, but obviously
it’s pretty worrying if British
passports have been used."
Basurama Turns Electric
Suspicion for the murder has
fallen on Mossad, the Israeli
secret service, which has carried
Train Ruins Into
out many such murders of
Palestinian leaders abroad.
Hamas has blamed Israel
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directly and Dubai's chief of Company) Basurama, which has also been
police said he could not rule out involved in trash and waste-
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Israeli involvement. related art projects in Buenos
Today Avigdor Lieberman, In 1986, the city of Lima, Peru, Aires, Montevideo, and Mexico
Israel's Foreign Minister, said began construction on a set of City. According to the group,
that the evidence was concrete columns and passways " P u b l i c s p a c e s i n L i m a
circumstantial but he did not that were supposed to be part the sometimes generate insecurity
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A New Love
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Charl Draxler traveled to Colon,
Honduras with a Living Water
mission team in January 2010.
Here, in her own words, are
some reflections from the trip.
When I saw the Living Water
video for the first time, God
touched my heart and I knew that
I wanted to be part of a well
drilling team. It seemed that
wherever I looked I saw an ad or
heard a report about the need for
clean water in the world. We can
send money. We can send food
and clothing. We can build
houses. We can even treat
medical needs. But if we don’t
provide clean water, people will
continue to die. I never wavered
on this calling in the year since
seeing the video. What I did
waver on was my own abilities
(or lack thereof) to teach the
women and children. Each of our
team members had to work
through something and this battle
was mine. Who am I? What do I
have to give?
By the third day of being with
the Honduran people I had
grown to love them, but there
was a moment that it all clicked
together for me and what had
been in my head moved into my
heart. As I stood in front of the
women with Jadira by my side, I
was prepared to teach them the
oral rehydration solution (ORS)
lesson. I looked into the beautiful
brown eyes of these trusting
women and I was struck with a
love for them that went far
beyond my own capabilities. I
shared with them that God had
heard their prayers and called on
Cedarbrook Church to answer
their prayer. I told them, through
my tears, about the wonderful
love of God. Only after finishing
this was I able to go on and teach
them the ORS lesson with a new
heart and a new indescribable
love for them. My own abilities
or inabilities didn’t even matter
because God had his own plan.
My first morning back at home I
awoke at 4:30 and looked out the
window at the full moon and
knew that many, many miles
south in a small area of a
Honduran city women and
children were lining up at the
new well to get their water.
Soon, they’ll learn to trust that
the water won’t run out or be
turned off. I pray that each time
they go to the well to drink they
remember to smile up at God and
give thanks.
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The 12 more than doubled conglomerate and others.
profits passing off the wine to E The judge said: "The scale of
and J Gallo under its Red the fraud caused severe damage
Bicyclette brand. for the wines of the Languedoc
E and J Gallo was not involved for which the United States is an
in the court case. important outlet."
The court ruled the 12 had A lawyer for Sieur d'Arques,
deliberately and repeatedly Jean-Marie Bourland, told
mislabelled the wine to one of Agence France-Presse: "There is
the more expensive varieties of no prejudice. Not a single
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Should Your Lawyer Specialize in
Entrepreneurship?
by Sarah Kessler (Inc.com)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:08:00 AM
It’s hard to start a company
without involving a lawyer, but it
can be even harder to figure out
what type of lawyer to hire.
There has never been an official
credential for an “entrepreneurial
lawyer.” That is, until Duke Law
School invented one. Two
months ago, the school
announced that it will be moving
forward with plans to offer a
LLM degree in entrepreneurship
for the 2010-2011 school year.
The one-year program is
primarily aimed at lawyers who
want to advise entrepreneurs or
to be entrepreneurs themselves.
The University of Colorado at
Boulder Law School has plans to
launch a similar program within
the year, but is still waiting for
official approval.While many
law schools have been offering
classes on entrepreneurship for
years, these schools are the first
to offer an additional degree.
LLM degrees are typically
reserved for highly technical
areas of law, like taxes, or for
lawyers from other countries
who want to practice in the
United States. An LLM degree in
a broad subject like
entrepreneurship is unusual, and
it is yet to be seen if it will be
something start-ups consider
when they are hiring a
lawyer.Brad Bernthal, who will
teach classes for the Colorado
program, sees one of the major
advantages of hiring a lawyer
with an entrepreneurial law
degree is his or her
understanding of the business
mindset. This he says, can help
bootstrapping start-up companies
prioritize their legal needs. Bill
Brown, who helped start the
Duke program, agrees that this
understanding can be mutually
beneficial. “Lawyers are
generally taught how to spot
issues, but too frequently they’re
not given the tools to solve the
problems the way that their
clients solve the problem,” he
says. “And this really addresses
that.” Both programs plan to
incorporate externships at start-
up companies in their programs,
and both schools believe that
their programs will benefit from
their geographical locations in
hearts of innovation; Duke Law
is in the “Research Triangle”
region of North Carolina and
Colorado Law is in proximity to
the “Mile High Tech Area”
between Boulder and Denver.
But some are skeptical that a
specialized degree is necessary
for a lawyer to succeed in
entrepreneurship. “The whole
concept of entrepreneurship is
not to specialize in one area, it’s
diversification in multiple areas
to assist an entrepreneur,” says
David Mann, who teaches a class
on entrepreneurship at
Northwestern Law.A lawyer who
is advising a start-up company
may deal with issues relating to
intellectual property, licensing,
real estate, taxes, partnership
agreements, loans, and many
others. “All of a sudden you’ve
gone through eight or nine areas
of the law and haven’t even
scratched the surface yet,” Mann
says. He thinks the true value of
studying entrepreneurship would
be that a lawyer would know
when to refer clients to a
specialist. For instance, a lawyer
with an LLM in entrepreneurship
won’t be able to master patent
law within the one-year program,
but he or she will be able to
recognize when a client will need
a patent and refer him or her to a
specialist. The degree would also
be useful for lawyers at the
smaller start-ups where
entrepreneurs can't afford to hire
several lawyers in a range of
specialties at first. At these
smaller firms, it’s up to a smaller
group of lawyers to know a little
bit of everything as compared to
a larger firm that may have
lawyers in every specialty. Jake
Beinecke, a law student and the
executive director of the Law
and Social Entrepreneurship
Association at NYU, is glad that
schools are starting to address
entrepreneurship, but plans to
pursue other routes to gain his
credentials in working with start-
ups.“I’ve spent a lot of time in
law school trying to develop the
right kind of experience—take
the right classes, develop the
right kind of work experience
and internships—so that I have
skills that are directly relevant to
entrepreneurism and also so that
my resume reflects those skills,”
he says. “Having an extra LLM
degree in a subject area like
entrepreneurship, I don’t think
it’s worth the time or money, for
me.” This is certainly the
approach Mann used when he
started to work with small
businesses almost 50 years ago.
“I went to the school of hard
knocks for entrepreneurial law,”
he jokes. “There’s a lot of
lawyers like me who learn what
they need to know to serve their
clients. You might have an LLM,
but are you dry behind the ears
yet?”
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Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:21:14 AM
The suds scene on Americans’
shower shelves has shifted. The
once dominant bar soap has
given way to the liquid goodness
of body wash with sales of body
wash topping those of bar soap
for the first time ever in the U.S.
Chicago-based market research
firm Information Resources Inc.
reports that body wash sales hit
$757.4 million last year,
compared to $751.4 million for
bar soap. Advertising experts
attribute the shift to more men
lathering up with bubbly loofahs
instead of the old Ivory soap
stick. Plus, if anyone has seen
the Old Spice commercials airing
during the Olympics, we now
know body wash is the manliest
way get yourself clean.
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New NASA Policy Opens Up Space Market

by Courtney Rubin (Inc.com)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:57:00 AM

SpaceX, PayPal founder Elon

Musk's upstart aerospace
company, last week began
piecing together the first version
of a new rocket that could
someday launch American
astronauts into the stratosphere.
This is spacecraft on a
shoestring: To avoid costly,
custom-made parts, the 900-
person, eight-year-old company
relies on refurbishments of those
already on the shelf. Among
them: An Apollo-era 125,000
gallon liquid oxygen tank (price
tag: $86,000, the price of the
scrap metal). As a result, the
estimated cost of one of Musk's
launches is a relatively
affordable $100 million. 8 at Florida's Cape Canaveral – companies. Colorado's Sierra Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed into SpaceX – publicly insists
It's all part of Musk's plan to would pave the way for 12 Nevada Corp was the big winner, Martin joint project, which the company financially can
usher in the era of low-cost space supply flights carrying a picking up $20 million to received $6.7 million to develop survive four Falcon 9 failures.
travel – well-timed, because last minimum of 20 tons to and from develop its seven-person Dream a way to monitor the health of (Whether the company can
week's NASA 2011 budget the International Space Station, Chaser craft. Amazon.com unmanned rockets that could be withstand them from a PR
request included a $6 billion per the company's $1.6 billion founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin recycled to launch manned standpoint is another question.)
boost over five years to privatize NASA contract. won $3.7 million to develop a spacecraft. "There should be absolutely zero
human space flights. The budget SpaceX's isn't the only ride launch escape system and build a SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch is question that SpaceX will prevail
also cancelled the beleaguered NASA can pimp – the new space crew-carrying module, and already at least two years behind in reaching orbit and
Constellation program to build policy opens up healthy market Paragon Space Development schedule, thanks to development demonstrating reliable space
new rockets aimed at returning competition. Dulles, Virginia's Corp ( No. 953 on Inc.'s 2009 delays and mounting regulatory transport," Musk told employees
astronauts to the moon by 2020. Orbital Sciences (an Inc. 500 5000) won $1.4 million to requirements. So the pressure is after the third unsuccessful
(NASA poured $9 billion into alum) is building its own rockets perfect its environmental control on for a successful launch – launch of Falcon 1 in 2008. "For
Constellation with only one semi under a separate NASA contract. and life support air vitalization something that took the company my part, I will never give up and
-successful test launch and years On Feb. 2, NASA also system. Other winners: Boeing, four tries with its sleek Falcon 1 I mean never."
of delay as a result.) announced $50 million in awards which picked up $18 million for booster.
The launch of SpaceX's black- to support the commercial its own seven-person space Musk – who has funnelled about
and-white 735,000-lb. Falcon 9 – spaceflight efforts of five other capsule, and the United Launch $100 million of his own money
tentatively scheduled for March
14 Business/ Tech News/
Thinking Back to the 1984 Summer Olympics: The Glory and
the Magenta
by Sean Adams (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:09:35 PM
Being a designer in Southern
California is like doing comedy;
it's much harder than it looks.
The 1984 Summer Olympics in
Los Angeles was a perfect
example of this. I remember the
spring before the Olympics.
Everyone planned to leave town.
"It will be like Armageddon,"
people said. "The freeways will
be jammed. People will be
stranded on the 405 for days."
The games began and the
freeways were wide open. It
wasn't because everyone was in
Palm Springs or San Diego.
There was a remarkable L.A.
spirit surrounding the Olympics
and I'm sure the design set the
tone.
The design program included
the talents of The Jerde
Partnership, Robert Miles
Runyon, Sussman/Prejza and an
extravaganza of other Los
Angeles designers.
Sure it's bright and fun and has a
touch of new wave. But it
MWC 2010: The Year of The Android
by Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:54:00 AM
BARCELONA — This year at
the Mobile World Congress is
worked beautifully. It had a
unique and energetic spirit and
functionally navigated an
enormous audience around a
complicated city.
Like the 1968 Mexico City
Summer Olympics, the visual
system's vibrant and playful
attitude told everyone, "Relax,
have a good time." Of course, to
the outside world, that's LA.
Now the downside was that the
the year of Android. Google’s
operating system is everywhere:
on handsets from HTC,
Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and
even Garmin-Asus. If this were
the world of computers, Android
design was not somber and
serious, a study in grey and grey.
So I'm sure somebody really
snooty looked at it in their dark
basement apartment, and said to
the television set, "Well! That is
simply too much! Too bright, too
fun, and too happy. Don't those
designers realize how serious the
Summer Olympics are?"
Fortunately, they did, and they
created something impossible
would be in a similar position to
Windows: Pretty much every
manufacturer puts it on its
machines.
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AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills,
California, whose clients include
The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, Adobe, Gap,
Frank Gehry Partners,
Nickelodeon, Sundance, Target,
USC, and The Walt Disney
Company. Work by
AdamsMorioka has been
exhibited widely, including a
solo exhibition at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern
Art. Sean has been recognized by
every major competition and
publication including STEP,
Communication Arts, Graphis,
AIGA, The Type Directors Club,
The British Art Directors' Club,
and the New York Art Directors'
Club, and as one the forty most
that looks effortless and light and
important people shaping design
creates joy, but functioned
in the I.D.40. Sean is a frequent
flawlessly, backed with years of
lecturer and competition judge,
hard work and sweat by an entire
teacher at Art Center College of
community.
Design and president ex-officio
Related: Designing the
of AIGA. He is the co-author of
Vancouver 2010 Winter
Logo Design Workbook, Color
Olympics
Design Workbook, and the book
Read more of Sean Adams' blog
series Masters of Design.
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Inc. 500 Update: GATR Suspect in UConn

Technologies in Haiti Football Player
(Inc.com)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 1:07:12 PM
dishes with him - which cost
about $100,000 each - to help aid
workers, U.S. troops and doctors
-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18.
"Most of our customers are
members of military and
Stabbing Free on Bond
(FOXNews.com) assault and conspiracy to commit
G A T R T e c h n o l o g i e s , a to coordinate their efforts via intelligence agencies that require
telecommunications company phone and high-speed Web communications access from Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:48:20 AM first-degree assault.
that earned 259th spot on the connections. GATR's light- remote areas around the world," Prosecutors allege Muhammad
2009 Inc. 5000, specializes in the weight antennas can fit into as Gierow says. "We're looking to Message from fivefilters.org: If stabbed another football player,
d e s i g n , i n t e g r a t i o n , a n d little as two boxes, and can be expand into the private sector by you can, please donate to the full Brian Parker, who has recovered
implementation of large-scale, checked on an airplane or sent working with, say, insurance -text RSS service so we can from his injuries.
high-performance, portable via FedEx to anywhere in the companies that want to set up continue developing it. Another man, 21-year-old John
telecommunications systems. world. remote access at disaster sites." VERNON, Conn. One of two Lomax III of Bloomfield, is
Inflatable antennas, like the one GATR not only donated the use While Gierow says that sending men charged with wielding charged with killing Howard on
pictured here, are the types of of several of their systems, but GATR's systems to help knives in the fight that ended Oct. 18, during the fight outside
deployable structures that GATR also supplied support personnel humanitarian organizations in with the fatal stabbing of a university sanctioned dance at
is most well known for. and satellite bandwidth time. relief efforts is a side of his University of Connecticut the student union. Lomax
When a series of earthquakes Additionally, other governmental business that will never be a football player Jasper Howard is remains in prison on a $2 million
began to ravish Haiti on January agencies supplied their own money-maker, he admits that he free after posting bail. bond.
12, GATR Technologies CEO GATR systems to support the doesn't necessarily want it to State Department of Correction Muhammad is due back in court
Paul Gierow wanted to help out, rescue and recovery efforts. become one. "But," he says, spokesman Brian Garnett says on Friday.
and he did more than simply Here, a GATR technician begins "every time a disaster hits, we Hakim Muhammad's family Five Filters featured article:
write a check on the company's the process of setting up an can show how quickly we can posted the $450,000 bond on Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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Though Gierow was unsure at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. can push." Here, Hoffman Twenty-one-year Muhammad of Term Extraction.
first whether he could spare the On how a GATR antenna stands with a fully deployed Bloomfield faces numerous
manpower to help set up his deploys, Gierow says, "The thing GATR antenna at Bogus Basin charges, including second-degree
company's inflatable satellite inflates like a big beach ball. I ski resort in Boise, Idaho. GATR
dishes, just two days after the still get a lot of snickers when antennae are operable in extreme
first devastating quake struck, on people first see it." conditions, from intense heat and
January 14, GATR deployment GATR deployment expert David humidity, to freezing
expert David Hoffman was on Hoffman stands next to a fully temperatures with high winds.
his way to Haiti at the CEO's inflated antenna on the roof of
request. Hoffman brought two the World Concern office in Port

Google Tweaks Buzz After Overblown Privacy Backlash

by Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 9:34:00 PM
Google admits to a rare gaff in who they often communicate unrepresentative army of coders.
its rollout of Buzz last week. with. The outcry is a lesson for
Users object to privacy issues Google that it shouldn’t limit pre
with the Gmail add-on for outing -release testing to its
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Han Solo and Chewbacca Consult on
International Space Station Observation Deck
by Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 12:07:03 PM
NASA astronauts, spacewalking
outside the International Space
Station, have just finished
installing what's likely to be the
best viewing platform ever: A
multi-windowed observation
deck that offers Earth views from
low Earth orbit.
The deck is part of the new
Tranquillity node that Space
Shuttle Endeavour has just
delivered into orbit, flying on her
last mission into space before
being mothballed. It's kind of
fitting then that as part of this
mission, Endeavour's played its
part in placing the largest
window ever used in space onto
the ISS--the central piece of
glass in the observation Cupola,
and the most amazing part of the
Italian-made observation dome.
The Cupola structure itself is
some 10-feet across and about 5-
foot high, and designed to
provide 360-degree views of the
ISS, and of the Earth below.
Why's it being installed though--
aren't huge windows dangerous
in space? Well, yes they are. But
the Cupola has armored shutters
that can be remotely snapped
over the windows when the
dome's not in use, to protect
them from micrometeorite
impacts. And the view through
the dome's portholes will help
enormously in future space
station operations, and will no
doubt result in even more
amazing photos being Twittered
by astronauts and cosmonauts.
But can we suggest that there's
one slightly more imaginative,
fanciful bit of thinking behind
the deck? It's got a huge
precedent in countless science
fiction books an movies. The
idea of a glass dome offering
unparalleled views of planets and
the cosmos appears over and
over again: Arthur C. Clarke
wrote about the scariness of huge
windows in 2061, Douglas
Adams had a Golgafrincham
spaceship captain relaxing in a
bath underneath a glass dome,
and the Tranquility observation
Cupola itself even bears a
passing resemblance in look and
size to the domed, faceted
window in front of the pilot's
console of the Millennium
Falcon in Star Wars. Was the
chance to recreate this iconic sci-
fi device just a little too tempting
for all the space agencies
involved in the ISS? If nothing
else, the breathtaking views
through it will be transmitted
back to Earth, where they may
inspire a generation who've just
had their biggest space dreams
quashed by the President.
[Via GoogleNews]
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Awesome new
toy trends from
the 2010 Toy Fair
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:54:00 AM
Over 1200 exhibitors have filled
345,000 square feet of space,
showcasing 100,000 products
(7000 of which have never seen
seen before) for 30,000
attendees. Yes, it’s time for the
2010 Toy Fair.
Within these four days, toy
manufacturers, buyers, retailers,
and other sundry professionals
will try to do an entire year’s
worth of business under one
roof. And under that roof, they’ll
experience the likes of David
Horvath, co-creator of the
alternative line of toys, Ugly
Dolls.
Check out some of his
innovative designs below:
Cute, right?
Read more about the 2010 Toy
Fair at The Huffington Post.
Get in touch with your inner
child with more news on toys.
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LOLspats: Cheezburger Network Sues Failbook.com for

"Confusing and Defrauding Our Users"
by Dan Macsai (Fast who claims Castillo "was trying Failbooking on Failbook, and violate our trademark." Castillo similar name, and made light of
Company) to confuse and defraud our users tried to sell the latter for quickly denied any wrongdoing. the whole situation with a
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:58:01 PM
by marketing the content and site $50,000. He also posted the site "Failbooking encourages users "humorous" Message to the
as his own and trying to profit on Digg, promoting to...'Put this fail on your blog: Judge. As TechDirt points out,
In one corner: Christian Castillo, from it." Ready, set, fight! Failbooking's content as if it (Copy & paste code),'" he this may not be lawsuit-worthy.
owner of Failbook.com, who The Cheezburger Network-- were his own. blogged. "Failbook just did so in But it's definitely suspect.
embedded the popular site which runs FAILblog, LOLcats, Shortly thereafter, Cheezburger an automated manner." As it stands, both parties are
Failbooking.com--a hub for LOL and a host of other ways to kill Networks asked Castillo to Which, you know, would be locked in a game of he-said, he-
-worthy Facebook updates--to t i m e a t w o r k - - l a u n c h e d reimburse their legal expenses fine. If Castillo made it clear said: Castillo says Huh just
"show what the domain could be Failbooking on January 5, (which they said were $9,000) that's what he was doing. wants his domain name. Huh
u s e d f o r . " I n t h e o t h e r : roughly four years after Castillo and agree in writing that he Instead, he repurposed says he's trying to protect his
Cheezburger Network CEO Ben registered Failbook. A few days would not "violate our Failbooking to draw attention-- LOLSPATS: page 18
Huh, owner of Failbooking.com, l a t e r , C a s t i l l o e m b e d d e d trademark or promote others to and buyers--to a site with a
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LOLSPATS:
continued from page 17

brand. Stay tuned for settlement

updates.
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TechDirt]

Sarcasm Wars: Proprietary

SarcMark Gets Some
Sarcastic Open Competition
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:57:00 AM
response to the closed and
proprietary SarcMark, another
group has launched the Open

Infographic of the Day: Obama Says You may recall, last month, we
wrote about some jokers who
came up with the idea of the
Sarcasm project that is, instead,
pushing a version of an upside
down exclamation point to
"I Inherited This Mess" With a Chart SarcMark to indicate when you
were being sarcastic. They
indicate sarcasm -- based on the
already in existence Ethiopian
by Jesse Ashlock (Fast White House continues to battle held office and then slowed just forgot to use their own mark on punctuation mark for sarcasm
Company) public perception and as rapidly since the stimulus plan the stunt, though, because it (which is why it's already a part
Republican attacks that the went into effect. In last month's seems pretty ridiculous to create of unicode) . I have no clue if
Submitted at 2/17/2010 12:33:19 PM
stimulus plan has been State of the Union, Obama was a proprietary punctuation mark they're being serious or sarcastic.
A chart marking the first ineffective in creating jobs, and explicit in saying, "I inherited for which they expect people to Which is why the world needs
anniversary of the stimulus i t j u s t r e l e a s e d a r e p o r t this mess." The chart offers a pay $1.99 to get a special app to more sarcasm markers.
package makes a case for the reiterating claims it made last visual reminder of how deep a use. Like that would work. Of Still, whether or not any of this
O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ' s month that 2 million jobs have hole we were in--nearly three- course, a few things happened in is serious, it actually does show
effectiveness at saving jobs. been saved or created. quarters of a million jobs lost a response. First, a bunch of how betting on proprietary
It was exactly one year ago Sometimes, however, a strong, month when ARRA became law- people noticed that the SarcMark solutions can often come back to
today that Barack Obama signed simple infographic says more -and how far the country along looked remarkably like script bite you, as more open, cheaper,
the $787 economic stimulus than words can. This nearly the steep path to recovery since version of the Hebrew letter and more flexible solutions pop
package, officially known as the symmetrical, V-shaped chart then. Whether the American "pey." In other words, get up to fill in the gap. So, yeah, to
A m e r i c a n R e c o v e r y a n d (full size here) offers a powerful people can be convinced remains yourself a Hebrew font, and SarcMark, good luck with that
Reinvestment Act, into law. story about job losses which to be seen, but graphics like this you're probably good to go. project.
With the unemployment rate accelerated rapidly during the can only help make the case. But, perhaps much more Permalink| Comments| Email
hovering around 10 percent, the final year that George W. Bush interesting is that the sarcasm This Story
wars have now broken out. In
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Argentina steps up Falklands row
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Argentina has announced new
controls on ships passing through
its waters to the Falkland Islands
in a growing dispute over British
oil drilling plans.
A permit will now be needed by
ships using Argentine waters en
route to the Falklands, South
Georgia or the South Sandwich
Islands - all UK controlled.
Argentina has protested to the
UK about oil exploration due to
begin next week.
The UK Foreign Office said the
Falkland Islands' waters were
controlled by its authorities and
would not be affected.
'Pathetic and useless'
Buenos Aires claims
sovereignty over the Falkland
Islands, which it calls Islas
Malvinas.
It has previously threatened that
any company exploring for oil
and gas in the waters around the
territory will not be allowed to
operate in Argentina.
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On Tuesday, Argentine
President Cristina Fernandez
signed a decree requiring all
vessels travelling between
Argentina and the islands, or
those that want to cross
Argentine territorial waters en
route to the Falklands, to seek
prior permission.
Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez
said the decree sought to achieve
"not only a defence of Argentine
sovereignty but also of all the
resources" in the area.
Last week, a ship carrying
drilling equipment was detained
by Argentine officials.
But a drilling rig from the
Scottish highlands, the Ocean
Guardian, is nearing the islands
and due to start drilling next
week, the UK-based company
Desire Petroleum has said.
However, a spokesman for the
company declined to comment
on the growing dispute between
the UK and Argentina over oil
and gas exploration.
Chairman of the Parliamentary
all-party Falklands group, Sir
Nicholas Winterton, said the
Argentine decree was "pathetic
and useless" and designed simply
to try to impede the economic
progress of the islands.
Considering the time lapsed and
the changes in the musical
landscape since Liars’ most
He said he would seek a meeting
with senior Foreign Office
officials to discuss the issue next
week.
BBC world affairs
correspondent Peter Biles said
Argentine anger over the issue
had been "brewing for a while".
He said: "The sabre-rattling over
oil in the South Atlantic is just
the latest episode in a dispute
that's remained unresolved since
the Falklands War nearly 28
years ago."
Ocean expanse
He told BBC Radio 5 live he did
not think events would escalate
"at this stage" but uncertainty
remained over what the
Argentines regarded as their
territorial waters.
After Argentina's invasion of the
Falklands in 1982, a UK
taskforce seized back control in a
short war that claimed the lives
of 649 Argentine and 255 British
soldiers.
The waters surrounding the
disputed islands are considered
by the UK as part of the British
Overseas Territories.
But Buenos Aires believes the
UK is illegally occupying the
Falklands, South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands.
recent album came out, fans of
the New York art-punk band
could be forgiven for wondering
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Last year it submitted a claim to
the United Nations for a vast
expanse of ocean, based on
research into the extent of the
continental shelf, stretching to
the Antarctic and including the
island chains governed by
Britain.
Jan Cheek, a member of the
Falklands' Legislative Assembly,
told BBC Radio 5 live the new
controls were part of a
"continuing irritation for us".
"While, of course, Argentina is
free to do what it wants in its
territorial waters, I don't think
they have any right to interfere in
ours," she said.
She added Argentina had in the
past "interfered" by refusing
charter flights heading to the
Falklands through its air space,
and stopping fishing and cargo
vessels.
"It's more of the same and we
come to expect it when
Argentina's government are
experiencing difficulties at
home. We're a very convenient
distraction."
A UK Foreign Office statement
said: "Regulations governing
Argentine territorial waters are a
matter for the Argentine
authorities.
if the group would still have its
edge.
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"This does not affect Falkland
Islands territorial waters which
are controlled by the island
authorities."
It added that the UK and
Argentina were "important
partners" with a "close and
productive relationship".
"We want, and have offered, to
co-operate on South Atlantic
issues. We will work to develop
this relationship further," the
statement said.
Geologists think the South
Atlantic ocean bed surrounding
the Falklands could contain rich
energy reserves.
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William Burns: "I had quite
productive and extensive
discussions with President
Assad"
A top US diplomat has
described as "candid" his lengthy
talks with Syrian President
Bashar Assad - part of a US
move to improve ties with
Damascus.
Under-Secretary of State
William Burns' visit comes a day
after US President Barack
Obama nominated the first US
ambassador to Syria in five
years.
Analysts say the visit aims to
loosen Syrian ties with Iran.
Syrian-US ties snapped in 2005
when the US withdrew its envoy
after ex-Lebanese PM Rafik
Hariri was assassinated.
Mr Burns is also due to meet
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid
Muallem in Damascus, as part of
a regional tour.
Correspondents say the envoy's
visit is also aimed at helping the
push for a Middle East peace
accord.
Bridge-building
Following his talks with Mr
Assad, Mr Burns said in a
statement: "We talked candidly
about the areas in which we
disagree, but also identified the
areas of common ground on
which we can build."
Washington's European allies
have pushed ahead in terms of
bolstering diplomatic ties and
trading links, with France very
much in the lead.
Continuing this policy of semi-
isolation now seems counter-
productive for the Americans.
The US initially set quite a high
price for engagement with
Damascus, wanting to extract
Syria from its Iranian embrace.
That goal has proved illusory.
Washington has had to
recalibrate its expectations.
Restoring full diplomatic
relations is something of a
gamble. What will Syria give in
return?
He added: "There are challenges
on the road but my meeting with
President Assad leaves me
hopeful that we can make
progress together in the interest
of both our countries."
Washington and Damascus may
disagree on issues such as Syria's
alliance with Iran and its support
for militant groups like Hamas
and Hezbollah, but they have
recently found common ground
over Lebanon and Iraq, says the
BBC's Lina Sinjab in Damascus.
Both countries want to see
movement on the Arab-Israeli
peace process, our correspondent
adds, and this is another area on
which the countries can agree.
But analysts in Damascus
believe that President Obama's
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to Syria - and imposed financial
sanctions.
Golan pressure
The US remains concerned
about Syria's support for the
Lebanese militant group
Hezbollah, says our
correspondent.
Washington also wants
Damascus to help stabilise Iraq
and to influence Iran over its
nuclear programme, she adds.
In return, the US could end its
sanctions against Syria and put
pressure on Israel to return the
Golan Heights - seized in the
1967 war.
Resolving the Israeli-Syrian
standoff could give a major push
to a peace accord between Israel
and the Palestinians, analysts
say.
administration needs to quickly
The appointment of a new
deliver something tangible in the
American ambassador, Robert
coming months to cement the
Ford, to Damascus has been in
recent progress between the
the works since the middle of
countries.
last year, says the BBC's
Syrian-American relations went
Washington correspondent Steve
into deep freeze five years ago
Kingstone.
when Damascus was blamed for
"His appointment represents
the killing of former Lebanese
President Obama's commitment
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, an
to use engagement to advance
accusation Syria has always
US interests by improving
denied.
communication with the Syrian
Our correspondent says relations
government and people," the
were strained even before Mr
White House said in a statement.
Hariri's assassination.
If the appointment is confirmed
Syria has been on Washington's
by the US Senate, Mr Ford
list of state sponsors of terrorism
would "engage the Syrian
since 1979.
government on how we can
In 2004, the US Congress
enhance relations, while
passed the Syria Accountability
Act - which prohibits most
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Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:19:00 AM count of capital murder and three shouting, "I am Dr. Amy said Phillips, who was among a nomination as rewarding an
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Students She is being held without bond Asked if he was referring to his seemingly made a point in class than a co-operative, loyal US
said they signed a petition and a n d d o e s n o t y e t h a v e a n wife's actions, he said: to use some of the same phrases ally," said the top Republican on
complained to no avail about the a t t o r n e y . P o l i c e h a v e n o t "Everything." they had so they would know she the House of Representatives
c l a s s r o o m c o n d u c t o f a n revealed a motive, but colleagues "It was way overblown," he said. knew about it. foreign affairs committee, Ileana
Alabama professor accused of s a y s h e w a s v o c a l i n h e r "Someone trying to make "It was like she was parroting Ros-Lehtinen.
killing three colleagues and displeasure about being denied something out of nothing." what we had said," Phillips said. Print Sponsor
wounding three others in a tenure in March of last year. Her He also defended his wife's University President David B. Five Filters featured article:
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The students upset with biology since the shooting that she killed with her. He said his wife taught many factors in the tenure Term Extraction.
professor Amy Bishop told The her brother with a shotgun in the "cut course" for nursing evaluation process, but he was
Associated Press they went to Braintree, Mass., in 1986 but students, who would either go on unaware of any student petition
U n i v e r s i t y o f A l a b a m a i n was never charged because toward a degree or quit the against Bishop.
Huntsville administrators at least police said it was an accident, program based on how they did Other tenured professors in the
t h r e e t i m e s a y e a r a g o , and that she and her husband in her class. department made the decision Melissa Rycroft vs.
c o m p l a i n i n g t h a t s h e w a s were scrutinized in 1993 after "If they didn't make it through, not to grant her tenure, a type of
ineffective in the classroom and someone sent pipe bombs to a they didn't make it," he said. "So job security given to academics, Dania Ramirez: Pretty in
had odd, unsettling ways. Harvard professor she worked it's natural for some to be but the votes of the committee Pink Celebs Wear Same
The students said Bishop never with. The bombs did not go off unhappy." were not made public. Podila Style
m a d e e y e c o n t a c t d u r i n g and no one was ever charged in He said classroom performance was supportive of her, Williams
conversations, taught by reading that case either. was not an issue in her tenure noted. (ETonline - Breaking News)
out of a textbook and made In 2002, Bishop was charged file, which has not been made ___ Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:50:00 AM

frequent references to Harvard w i t h a s s a u l t , b a t t e r y a n d public. Associated Press Writer Greg

University, her beloved alma disorderly conduct after a tirade Bishop's students said they first Bluestein contributed to this It's a fashion face-off for style-
mater. at the International House of wrote a letter to biology report. savvy celebs! From "Heroes"
"We could tell something was Pancakes in Peabody, Mass. department chairman Gopi K. Five Filters featured article: actress Dania Ramirez and ET's
off, that she was not like other Peabody police Capt. Dennis Podila — one of the victims of Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: special correspondent Melissa
teachers," said nursing student Bonaiuto said Bishop became Friday's shooting — then met PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Rycroft's eye-popping outfits, to
Caitlin Phillips. incensed when she found out with him and finally submitted a Term Extraction. former "Charmed" star Rose
Still, they said, they saw no sign another woman had received the petition that dozens of them had McGowan and "Big Love"
she might turn violent. restaurant's last booster seat. signed. actress Chloe Sevigny's red-
carpet ruffles, see which stars are
stepping out in a similar fashion.
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Italian Pirate Bay Block
Students Complained About Prof. Charged in Leads To Massive
Traffic Boost For
Shooting Competing Torrent Sites
(FOXNews.com) Bishop is charged with one had received the restaurant's last petition that dozens of them had by Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 11:08:24 PM count of capital murder and three booster seat. Bishop hit the signed. Submitted at 2/17/2010 4:29:13 AM
counts of attempted murder in woman while shouting, "I am Dr. "Podila just sort of blew us off,"
Message from fivefilters.org: If the shootings Friday in a campus Amy Bishop," according to the said Phillips, who was among a A decade into the entertainment
you can, please donate to the full conference room where members police report. group of five students who met industry's massive game of whac
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continue developing it. meeting. stupid," Bishop's husband, James 2009 to air their concerns. sharing sites, you would think
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Students She is being held without bond Anderson, said Wednesday. After students met privately that people would realize that
said they signed a petition and a n d d o e s n o t y e t h a v e a n Asked if he was referring to his with Podila, Phillips said, Bishop blocking or banning any
complained to no avail about the a t t o r n e y . P o l i c e h a v e n o t wife's actions, he said: seemingly made a point in class particular site doesn't do a damn
classroom conduct of a professor revealed a motive, but colleagues "Everything." to use some of the same phrases thing to slow the pace of file
accused of killing three say she was vocal in her "It was way overblown," he said. they had so they would know she sharing around the globe.
colleagues and wounding three displeasure about being denied "Someone trying to make knew about it. Instead, it does two things: (1)
others in a shooting rampage at a tenure in March of last year. Her something out of nothing." "It was like she was parroting informs more people of the
faculty meeting. appeal was denied in November. He also defended his wife's what we had said," Phillips said. social norm of unauthorized file
The students upset with biology There have been revelations teaching, saying the "vast University President David B. trading and (2) causes people to
professor Amy Bishop told The since the shooting that she killed majority" of students were happy Williams said Tuesday that scatter to more sites, usually
Associated Press they went to her brother with a shotgun in with her. He said his wife taught student evaluations were one of further underground and even
administrators at the University Braintree, Massachusetts, in the "cut course" for nursing many factors in the tenure more difficult to identify and
of Alabama in Huntsville at least 1986 but was never charged students, who would either go on evaluation process, but he was stop. And, indeed, that appears
t h r e e t i m e s a y e a r a g o , because police said it was an toward a degree or quit the unaware of any student petition to be the case in Italy. You may
c o m p l a i n i n g t h a t s h e w a s accident, and that she and her program based on how they did against Bishop. recall that the Italian Supreme
ineffective in the classroom and husband were scrutinized in in her class. Other tenured professors in the Court recently decided that it
had odd, unsettling ways. 1993 after someone sent pipe "If they didn't make it through, department made the decision was okay for a lower court to
The students said Bishop never bombs to a Harvard professor they didn't make it," he said. "So not to grant her tenure, a type of block The Pirate Bay(the lower
m a d e e y e c o n t a c t d u r i n g she worked with. The bombs did it's natural for some to be job security given to academics, court is now deciding what to
conversations, taught by reading not go off and no one was ever unhappy." but the votes of the committee do), but in response, it appears
out of a textbook and made charged in that case either. He said classroom performance were not made public. Podila that users have already figured
frequent references to Harvard In 2002, Bishop was charged was not an issue in her tenure was supportive of her, Williams out how to scatter to other sites,
University, her beloved alma w i t h a s s a u l t , b a t t e r y a n d file, which has not been made noted. as many other torrent sites have
mater. disorderly conduct after a tirade public. Five Filters featured article: seen an influx of Italian users.
"We could tell something was at the International House of Bishop's students said they first Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Another mole whacked, and yet,
off, that she was not like other P a n c a k e s i n P e a b o d y , wrote a letter to biology PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, more keep popping up. It's
teachers," said nursing student Massachusetts. Peabody police department chairman Gopi K. Term Extraction. difficult to see how this is a
Caitlin Phillips. Capt. Dennis Bonaiuto said Podila — one of the victims of particularly good strategic
Still, they said, they saw no sign Bishop became incensed when Friday's shooting — then met policy.
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Help Wanted; 'Arrogant Americans' Who’s Playing Social

Need Not Apply Games? [STATS]
(FOXNews.com) immediately, this was a Rose Valenta, of Chalfont, Pa., by Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 10:26:13 PM mistake," Singh said. "This was said she received the job Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:33:42 AM
not wordage by Viva. This was description via e-mail from Viva
Message from fivefilters.org: If sent into us by the client, but we, on Tuesday. Casual game-maker Popcap
you can, please donate to the full as the staffing company, should "I was OK with the first Games (famous for Plants vs.
-text RSS service so we can have looked into it before paragraph, but when I got to the Zombies and Bejeweled)
continue developing it. posting." second, I was floored," she told commissioned Information
Looking for a job? Well, if Singh apologized for the error, FoxNews.com. Services Group to perform a
you're an "arrogant American," citing "negligence" on the "It made me furious. People need survey of people who play social
you had better search elsewhere. company's behalf. to know about this. There's a lot games online. It found that the There were more insights in the
An information technology Judith Rader, a spokeswoman of things here that need to be average social gamer is a 43-year survey beyond gender. Facebook
staffing firm based in Rolling for Exelon, said the company looked into." -old woman, despite long- is the most popular destination
M e a d o w s , I l l . , p o s t e d a n was looking into the matter. Ferne Wolf, a St. Louis-based standing social stereotypes about for online games, with 83% of
advertisement for a technical "Exelon is researching the issue," employment law attorney, said people who play games. respondents saying they have
writer that warned that an Rader said in an e-mail. "We the posting "sounds like national Note that “social games” are played games there. Twenty-
"arrogant American" would not c a n n o t v e r i f y o r p r o v i d e origin discrimination" and web-based games like Mafia eight percent have purchased in-
flourish in the position. comment on this information suggested the advertisement be Wars and FarmVille that you game currency with real-world
"Exelon is looking to provide until we learn the facts." brought to the attention of EEOC play on social networks like money. The average gamer has
these proposals to Chinese Diana Johnston, an attorney for officials. Facebook, not Xbox 360 action played six social games, and
businesses, so someone who is t h e E q u a l E m p l o y m e n t "I think a jury could reasonably games like Gears of War or more than 50% of gamers started
respectful and understands Opportunity Commission, said a conclude that there's already a Halo— young males still playing a game because a friend
Chinese culture is preferred. An hiring decision based on national predisposition [by the firm] that dominate that branch of the recommended it or because they
arrogant American will not work origin would be a violation of Americans are arrogant," she gaming hobby. saw a friend playing it in a news
well in this role," the listing read. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act said. "That's like saying ditzy The survey found that 55% of feed or other social stream.
The ad, posted by Viva USA, an o f 1 9 6 4 , w h i c h p r o h i b i t s blondes need not apply." social gamers are female and One hundred million people are
i n f o r m a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y discrimination by employers on Wolf continued, "You'd think 45% are male. Females are more playing these games and about
consulting firm, has since been the basis of race, color, religion, they would know better. Maybe avid gamers, too; 38% of $1 billion in revenue is expected
removed. Varuna Singh, the sex or national origin. they need a lawyer. There's females said they play multiple this year. It’s no wonder folks
c o m p a n y ' s d e v e l o p m e n t "You always have to look at the plenty of good defense attorneys times a day, but just 29% males like Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield
manager, told FoxNews.com it whole thing in context, but in Chicago." said the same. Women are more are diving into the market.
received the language from its certainly it does violate Title VII Five Filters featured article: likely to play with people they Reviews: Facebook
client, Exelon Nuclear Partners, to discriminate based on national Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: know (68% vs. 56% for males), Tags: facebook, games,
and the wording somehow got origin," she said. "If you make a PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, and men are more likely to play myspace, online games, popcap
past a "junior recruiter" who hiring decision based on national Term Extraction. with strangers (41% vs. 33%) games, survey, video games
posted the advertisement on origin, including it based on than women are.
CareerBuilder.com. somebody being American, that
" W e a r e t a k i n g i t d o w n would be a violation."
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3 Dead After Small Plane Crashes Acrobat, Adobe Reader

Into Calif. House & Flash updated for
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 11:10:18 PM
neighborhood.
A wing fell onto one house,
where a children's day care
said. "I am very thankful to God
that he allowed us to get out."
The plane is registered to Air
critical security fixes
by Michael Rose (The
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EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. A vehicles on the street, he said. was headed to the Hawthorne
small plane crashed Wednesday The occupants of the homes Municipal Airport in Southern Filed under: Software, Security
in a residential neighborhood h a v e b e e n a c c o u n t e d f o r , California, the FAA said. In response to two critical
shrouded in heavy fog, killing all although authorities can't be sure The city of Palo Alto, which vulnerabilities in Acrobat and
three aboard, igniting fires and of the fatality count until crews provides power through a Adobe Reader 9.3, yesterday
scattering debris onto a house begin clearing the wreckage, municipal utility agency, said Adobe released the 9.3.1 update
where a children's day care Schapelhouman said. most of the city and surrounding for both applications; users of
center operated, authorities said. "Either by luck or the skill of the area had lost power due to the older 8.x versions can update
There were no reports of injury pilot, the plane hit the street and Wednesday's plan crash. Neither to 8.2.1 to resolve the security less likely to be targeted by
on the ground, and fires caused not the homes on either side," he the city nor Pacific Gas & issues. One of the two malware than our Windows-
b y t h e c r a s h w e r e s o o n added. "That saved people in this Electric, which owns the vulnerabilities addressed would using friends and family,
extinguished. community." transmission lines used by the allow a malicious PDF to make vigilance is still critical. Security
The Cessna 310 crashed around Pamela Houston, an employee city power agency, had an unauthorized cross-domain analysis firm ScanSafe reported
7:55 a.m. shortly after takeoff of the day care in the house estimate for when power would requests; the other could crash that it saw the percentage of
from the Palo Alto Airport, struck by the wing, said she was be restored. the PDF application and possibly exploits delivered via PDF files
a c c o r d i n g t o t h e F e d e r a l feeding an infant when she heard "We have multiple crews on allow an attacker to gain access rise from 56% at the beginning
Aviation Administration. The a loud boom that she initially scene investigating," said Joe to other parts of the system. of 2009 all the way up to 80% in
crash site is one mile northwest thought was an earthquake until Molica, a PG&E spokesman. The first flaw is related to a the 4th quarter, so keeping those
of the airport. she "saw a big ball of fire hit the "The crash appears to have Flash Player issue that was Adobe apps current -- or, better
Identities of the victims aboard side of the house." affected three transmission lines revealed last week; if you have yet, using Apple's Preview app
the aircraft were not immediately Houston said she screamed to that serve the city of Palo Alto's not updated Flash to the latest as the default PDF reader on
known. the others in the house — the municipal utility." version (10.0.45.2 as of this Mac OS X -- is only prudent.
Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold owner, the owner's husband and Five Filters featured article: moment, see your version & TUAW Acrobat, Adobe Reader
Schapelhouman said the plane their three children — and the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: current versions here) & you & Flash updated for critical
struck a power transmission line group safely escaped before the PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, aren't blocking Flash, you should security fixes originally appeared
and broke apart, sending debris home went up in flames. Term Extraction. go get the latest build right away. on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
raining down on the working- "There are not even words to Although you can configure auto (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010
c l a s s S i l i c o n V a l l e y describe what it felt like," she -update notifications in Flash 12:30:00 EST. Please see our
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Day 2: Vancouver Winter Olympics
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:12:00 AM
This are pictures from Day 2 at
the Vancouver Winter Olympics,
but first, the really great news.
After watching two periods of
Canada versus Latvia last night,
my wife leaned over and said to
me, “You know, fighting does
make hockey more exciting.”
Holy kaw! Mother of four,
pacifist, greenie from California,
saying this is HUGE.
It started with getting tickets
from my buddies. This is Mike
Jagger of Provident Security.
And this is Jim Arnholt.
This is my total ticket stash.
Went on a little walk through
the West End of town and saw
this car.
It’s a Carnuck.
We just don’t have lingerie
shops like this in California.
Roots was doing a bang-up
business.
All these people stood in line to
buy pins.
Pins in action.
You could stand in front of a
green screen and look live you
were in various situations around
the Olympics.
Even Batman was out.
This is an exhibit of scrolls or
something.
If the digital method of posing
isn’t your thing, you can go
analog.
No visit to a city is complete
with dropping in on the Apple
store.
Curling is a formal sport here.
Apparently, Canadians do like
to hang out.
Let me show you how you get
into a hockey game. First, you
walk along the sidewalk until
you go through security.
Second, you go up a bridge.
Third, you get in line with
20,000 Canadians…
All of whom are going through
this tiny gate.
Fourth, you go up and across
another bridge
Fifth, down the bridge.
Sixth, you walk into the arena
area.
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Firefox Guys Admit
That Competition Is
What Drives Innovation
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 7:28:00 AM
For years, we (and certainly
plenty of other people) have
pointed out that monopolies, like
patents and copyrights, don't
drive innovation -- competition
does. In fact, having monopolies
does the opposite of driving
innovation, since the
monopolists have fewer reasons
to innovate and upgrade since
they're not fighting against
competitors. This point is made
quite clear in an admission by
Mike Beltzner, the director of
Firefox at Mozilla, in an article
at Slate discussing how much
browsers have been innovating
lately:"Were there not other
competitors who were just as
Seventh, you get to the building. Norwegian ones. interested in making Web
Eighth, you go into the building. A f t e r t h e g a m e , 1 9 , 9 9 8 browsers faster, I don't know if
And you see 20,000 rabid Canadians and two Norwegians we'd be able to find the gains
Canadian fans. go out, you go to your hotel, that we can find," he said. "Now
Ninth, you go thru a hallway. chill for thirty minutes, and then it's a game of one-upping each
Tenth, you arrive at a suite full you repeat the process to see other." Imagine if instead of
of Canadian fans from VKI Russia play Latvia. thinking that way, the concept of
Studios. This time, in a new suite, you a browser had been patented way
But all you truly care about is get to meet a minister, Naomi back when? Does anyone
the beer. Yamamoto, who is the minister honestly think that we'd have as
And in such a suite you meet of state for intergovernmental innovative a web world as we do
famous people like Brian Burke, relations for British Columbia. today?
the general manager of the T o t a l W i n t e r O l y m p i c s Permalink| Comments| Email
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The arena is a sea of red.
Mathematically, 19,998
Canadian fans and two
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Sarkozy tours quake-ravaged Haiti Google Open-Sources

(BBC News | Americas |
World Edition)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 7:57:02 AM
help them pick themselves up
again and open a new happy
page in their history," said Mr
efforts.
The legacy of French colonial
rule is still a bitter issue for many
its Experimental News
Sarkozy after his arrival.
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you can, please donate to the full circumstances, a visit by a
Haitians.
Haiti won independence in 1804 Format
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-text RSS service so we can president of the French Republic against the French. (Mashable!)
continue developing it. would have been a pleasure", but However, Paris demanded 90
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:35:14 AM
French President Nicolas added that instead this was "a million pieces of gold in
Sarkozy has pledged earthquake- time of national mourning. We reparations for lost property and In December Google launched
r a v a g e d H a i t i 2 7 0 m e u r o s are grieving for our dead." Haiti did not finish repaying the the Living Stories Google Labs
(£235m) in reconstruction aid. The two men then boarded a debt until 1947. project (in conjunction with The
Mr Sarkozy, the first French h e l i c o p t e r t o v i e w t h e French and Haitian officials New York Times and The
president to visit the former devastation and the aid efforts hope Mr Sarkozy's four-and-a- Washington Post) to experiment
colony, was greeted by Haitian from the air. half hour visit will cement better with the format of online news feedback said they preferred the
President Rene Preval in the Colonial legacy relations. delivery. Today, Google is open- Living Stories format to the
capital, Port-au-Prince. The Inter-American Mr Sarkozy said: "France will sourcing the technology and traditional online news article.”
His schedule includes a visit to a Development Bank has estimated live up to the responsibilities of making it available to all Obviously the open-source
field hospital and a helicopter the damages from the quake at its shared history and friendship publishers. initiative should get the Living
tour to see the devastation of the up to $14bn (£8.9bn; 12.2bn with Haiti." As it stands, Living Stories Social format more exposure,
quake, which killed up to euros). As part of his trip, the French presents topic-based news, with and we’re curious to see how
230,000. More than one million people president will also visit stories bundled together in one publishers and media
The aid package includes were left homeless and aid Martinique and French Guyana. living entity that dynamically organizations respond to the
cancelling 56m euros (£48m) in workers are rushing to distribute Print Sponsor updates as more news is move. As it stands, the Google
debt owed by Haiti. tarpaulins ahead of the rainy Five Filters featured article: published on a topic. Now that Labs hosted version of Living
"I have come to tell the Haitian season. Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Google is making the source Stories is kaput, so if the Times
people and their leaders that France will be part of a major PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, code behind the experiment and The Washington Post
France, which was the first on summit in New York next month Term Extraction. available to developers, the continue using the format it will
the ground after the catastrophe, to develop international aid alternative news format can be be on their own sites. The same
will remain firmly at their side to embraced by any publisher. holds true for new publishers
The bonus for publishers is that who opt to embrace the
Apple Replacing Hard Drives on Old the format is purportedly more
viewer-friendly, and in Google’s
technology.
image courtesy of iStockphoto,
spxChrome Reviews: Google,
MacBooks for Free [Hard Drives] eyes the trial run was a success.
While Google isn’t releasing too
many stats on its first test of the
Google Labs, iStockphoto
Tags: Google, Living Stories,
by Adam Pash (Lifehacker) defective drives—hence the free media
platform, it is claiming that
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:00:00 AM replacement thing. The program “75% of people who sent us
runs until August 15th or three
If you bought a MacBook years after you bought your
sometime between 2006 and MacBook (whichever lasts
2007, your gear could be eligible longer). [ Register Hardware via
for a free hard drive replacement drives in certain MacBooks of Gizmodo]
courtesy of Apple. Apparently that generation shipped with
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How tourism businesses can invest in online
video (and why they should)
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:34:43 AM
Considering the average viewer
watches about 187 videos per
month in the U.S. alone,
shooting and distributing online
video is an absolute must for any
tourism business serious about
marketing on the web. In parts
one and two of a three part series
focusing on producing online
video—Tourism Keys has
identified over twenty handy
ideas to help you begin doing
just that.
• Prepare an informed consent
waiver. You will want to feature
your team members, staff, guests
5 weirdest beauty cream ingredients
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:25:00 AM
Historically, different cultures
used ingredients depending on
what was available in their
region. Some of those
ingredients have endured
through time and have gone on
to play a part in the mainstream
cosmetics market. So, thanks to
ancient practices from all over
the world, beauty creams can
contain some pretty unusual
ingredients.
People are often trying to find
the fountain of youth, and while
the mystic waters remain a
and community members on
camera. Have them sign a simple
release that gives you permission
to use the video freely.
• Get a tripod that fits your
camera. Just do it. Handheld
video is very difficult for most
mystery, some thousands of
facial creams are on the market
today. Even though exact
formulas are closely guarded, it’s
mandated that ingredients are
clearly listed on the packaging
people to watch. Whenever
possible, use the tripod to ensure
a steady camera. Tripods also
make a one person video shoot
much easier to manage.
• Shoot B-Roll throughout the
year. Preplan the video you want
labels. So, if you took the time to
read the label, you may be
surprised at what you see.
• Whale Vomit: Better known as
ambergris, this flammable waxy
substance has been used for
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to share with your guests and
schedule outings to capture B-
roll. Plan sunrise shots, birds and iPhone battery dead? In
wildlife on your property. Does a squeeze you can
your facility have a special
sparkle and shine at certain times charge it with Jaffa
of the day because the light is oranges
right – make a plan to shoot it. by David Winograd (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
See part one and two here and (TUAW))
here, courtesy of Tourism Keys.
Learn more about the tourism Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:00:00 PM
industry. Filed under: Video, How-tos,
Photo credit: Fotolia Cult of Mac, iPhone This may be
Permalink| Leave a comment » strange -- in fact very strange --
but Imperial Leisure, a marketing
and social media firm, has
created an advertisement using
an iPhone, to promote the sale of
Jaffa oranges. They found that
with a lot of rods and cable you
can use orange power, or rather
centuries. It's added as a fixative the power of 2380 Jaffa oranges,
in perfumes, some of which find to power an iPhone. Talk about
their way into your beauty thinking outside of the box, or in
cream. this case, the crate.
• Bird Droppings:"Uguisu no [via Engadget and Macenstein]
f u n , " o r p o w d e r e d b i r d Click on the Read More link to
droppings, are the key ingredient view the ad.
in an ancient facial treatment. TUAW iPhone battery dead? In
The uric acid in the poop is a squeeze you can charge it with
supposed to do wonders for your Jaffa oranges originally appeared
skin. on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010
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Will People Pay For Content Online?

by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) questioning whether or not really those tiny blue percentages
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:14:00 AM people will actually pay for that matter here. And those are
content online, as seen in the tiny across the board -- and the
One fascinating thing to watch following chart, released by reason isn't copyright
is how people in certain content Nielsen plotting the data: Of infringement or unauthorized file
professions continue to hold out course, you can read this chart in access, but the fact that the
hope that there's some way that a variety of different ways -- and producers of the content haven't
maybe, possibly, really people I found it interesting that the data figured out how to give most
will suddenly see the light and is not actually to scale, since it people a true reason to buy.
magically start "paying for cut off at the 60% mark. To put They're used to a world where
content online." N o w , this into a bit more perspective, you didn't need to figure out a
obviously, many people do pay it's a bit more helpful to show business model, but artificial
for content online, but it's a very what the data actually say on a scarcities and a small number of
difficult market position to full 100% scale, so I did a quick gatekeepers were able to make it
sustain due to basic economic & dirty version of that myself to so people had little choice.
forces, unless you're doing help out: Ah, amazing what a But these days, with widespread
something special, and have different scale will do, as the abundance in content -- which is
figured out a way to effectively latter image makes the numbers growing every day -- the era of
bundle that content with some (accurately) look a little less artificial scarcities is rapidly
sort of real and valuable scarcity impressive than the image ending, and anyone who wants to
-- i.e., a true reason to buy. released by Nielsen. build a 21st century business
But, figuring out those business But, even beyond that, these model needs to start looking for
models aren't easy, and for those numbers don't actually look all real scarcities that offer real
who grew up in a world of that good for the folks who claim value, not artificial scarcities that
artificial scarcity, there's always t h a t t h e r e ' s s o m e w a y t o seek to limit value while
this vague hope that, magically, suddenly get people to start would never actually pay for did x, they'll pay" camp (where x boosting price. So, yes, there's
people will start paying again. paying for this stuff, for a whole something will say they will pay. is anything from "shut down The some interesting data here, but
Believers in this fantasy were variety of reasons. First, this is I won't even bother to estimate Pirate Bay" to "kicked file it's not the savior of those who
pretty happy to gloat and point survey data, which is notoriously that amount, but I would argue sharers off the internet" to think there's a business model in
us to a recent report from b a d a t g e t t i n g p e o p l e t o it's a significant chunk of those "passed three strikes legislation" selling content directly. It really
Nielsen, concerning some survey accurately predict if they would orange bars. to "increased enforcement" to says the exact opposite.
data on whether or not people pay for something. You can lop However, even if we grant the "beefed up copyright laws" etc.). Permalink| Comments| Email
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suggestion passed along was that who say they would pay, because potentially would pay, it still you look at how many people are
this shows that we're crazy for when asked, lots of people who doesn't support the "if we just actually paying. That is, it's

Kettquad: Das Off-Road Fun

by John Biggs (CrunchGear) quad racer for kids and/or the bad part: this monster costs right now but I totally want to
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:00:58 AM smaller adults and it’s coming to over $800 but it has a completely ride one.
the US from Germany thanks to enclosed chain and disk brakes. Click through for video.
You like that? It’s kind of a big toy maker Kettler. Now here’s There’s not a lot of specs on it
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Social gaming's big, but who's spending money?

(CNET News.com) Bejeweled are suburban moms. percent. And Facebook, of social gamers say they've been
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:22:00 AM Here's how the survey worked: unsurprisingly, has a huge lock "misled" by an ad or offer in a
Out of 5,000 survey respondents on the market: 83 percent of game, a nod to the prevalence of
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-text RSS service so we can social games at least once per percent on MySpace, 7 percent completing offers or surveys.
continue developing it. week for at least 15 minutes. on Bebo, and 5 percent on These third-party outlets became Abandoned Coal Plant:
We all know by now that games Those users were identified as Friendster. Keep in mind that the subject of major scrutiny last
built on top of social networks' "social gamers," and it's their this is U.S. and U.K. only: fall when allegations surfaced
Well, That's Depressing
platforms are a big deal, but the results that populate the rest of Friendster has more traction in that they were scamming users [Image Cache]
results of a study commissioned t h e s u r v e y . A P o p C a p Asia, and another social site, into actually spending more by Mark Wilson (Gizmodo)
by games manufacturer PopCap representative said that while the Hi5, is big in Latin American money--one of the leading
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:40:00 PM
give some idea of just what the study did include people under countries. companies in the space, Offerpal
numbers are like. the age of 18, that "very few" in Companies hoping to cash in big Media, ended up changing its Here's a tacit reminder from an
The survey estimates that there that demographic participated in on micropayments and virtual terms of service and replacing its abandoned coal plant in
are about 100 million people in the survey. goods in games may be CEO amid the mess. Hagerstown, MD, that today's
the U.S. and U.K. who play (Also note the fact that the interested in this item, though: But the bad press didn't do much priced tech is just tomorrow's
social games regularly, based on survey was commissioned by a while just over half of social to alter the trajectory of the decay...and in other news, raise
t h e 2 4 p e r c e n t o f s u r v e y game publisher. It likely doesn't gamers (53 percent) say they social games industry: right your hand if you want a shiny
respondents who identified make the results suspect, but have earned or spent virtual around the same time, Electronic new phone! [ Photo from
themselves as such. More s h o u l d b e t a k e n i n t o goods in a game, only 28 percent Arts announced that it had Zero1o1's Flickr via boingboing]
women than men--55 percent to c o n s i d e r a t i o n r e g a r d l e s s . ) say they have spent real-world acquired successful social
45 percent--identify themselves The rest of the survey has quite money on virtual goods and 32 gaming company Playfish for
as social gamers, and the average a bit to say about where people percent have bought a virtual $275 million.
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Dear Internet: Please grow up re: Toyota zombie ad

by Nicholas Deleon
(CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:30:58 AM
Really, Internet? Now you’re
being facetious. This is the ad for
the new Toyota Corolla. It has
zombies in it (“Equipped for a
zombie attack or just…life”). It’s
now “controversial” in light of I’m not defending the ad. It’s be popular with today’s youth.
the 34 deaths caused by all those pretty stupid. In fact, I blame the Perhaps we should come up with
Toyota glitches. Internet for popularizing the an ad to reflect the inexplicable
The thing is, zombies are not childish idea of “zombie attacks” popularity of zombies on the
dead people; they’re undead. in the first place. You just know Internet?”
There’s a difference, a difference the guy who pitched that as the Give that man a bonus!
I had hoped the Internet, wry ad agency was trolling 4Chan
device that it is, would have the ad to score cheap heat at looking for “young” and “hip”
grasped. Nope: now it’s using Toyota’s expense. ideas. “Guys, zombies seem to
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Is There Any Way To Be A Music

Blogger Without Risking Takedown?
by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) The EFF does shed some light another lawsuit in some foreign
Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:02:28 AM on one interesting aspect of all of country (it's already dealing with
this. Many of the takedowns a bunch of those), you would
Last week, we wrote twice about were filed by the IFPI, who think that the company might be
the Google music blog mess, seems to claim that the takedown better off responding with a
which caused many people to notices are not technically simple: "we are based in the US,
falsely attack Google for its DMCA takedowns since the IFPI the content you are complaining
p o l i c i e s i n d e a l i n g w i t h is not a US-based organization,
takedown notices. While it is and thus, it doesn't need to
about is hosted on US servers,
we abide by US law, and unless Macworld 2010: TUAW
true that Google could do a follow the DMCA's rules (such you follow the DMCA's rules for
better job in communicating and as specifically designating which
potentially in fighting for its files are infringing): Ordinarily,
an official takedown notice, we
will not be taking down the
talks to OpenFeint
users, the real problems are that the party issueing the takedown content." by Mike Schramm (The OpenFeint app that was released
the DMCA makes this very notice would be required by US Either way, the bigger (and Unofficial Apple Weblog last month, as well as their
d i f f i c u l t f o r G o o g l e ( a n d copyright law to specify which more important) point is that (TUAW)) popular free game of the day
potentially very risky) and the content is being accused. But, as pretty much anyone who blogs Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:45:00 PM giveaway -- once per day, they
big recording industry lawyers an international organization about music may face this sort of give away an OpenFeint game
seem totally disconnected from headquartered in London, IFPI is situation at some point or another Filed under: Gaming, Software, for free right there inside the app.
what the same label marketing arguing that it doesn't even need -- even if you have explicit Internet, Interviews, iPhone, App And we also talked about both
folks are doing. to play by the USA's rules. "We permission to post those tracks. S t o r e O n t h e d a y b e f o r e how OpenFeint is serving as
Now, the EFF has weighed in to neither admit nor accept," they The process that the IFPI, RIAA Macworld last week, I got a connection between developer
look at whether or not it's even write, "...that Google is entitled and others go through to demand chance to sit down with Eros and customer, as well as why
possible for any music blogger to t o b e s e r v e d a n o t i c e i n takedowns is so automated and Remini, VP of Marketing for Apple hasn't really shown an
avoid this sort of scenario and compliance with the DMCA." so disconnected from any OpenFeint, to talk about his interest in an official iTunes
has concluded that the answer is Translation: IFPI is essentially marketing people (or common social gaming network for gaming network like this.
basically no, it's not. Many threatening to sue Google under sense around marketing) that lots iPhone apps. He shared with me You can check out the whole
music bloggers jumped ship to some unspecified foreign law -- of people will receive them even that the network has claimed a interview on video right after
other hosting firms, but as we presumably one which lacks though they should not. At some gigantic 12 million users total, clicking through the link below.
noted in our original discussion even the modest safe-harbor point, perhaps, the labels will with about a million of them Enjoy!
on the topic, those other hosts provisions available in the USA. recognize this is a mess of their active in iPhone games from day TUAW Macworld 2010: TUAW
will face the same exact issue It's no wonder Google felt the own making, but it seems like to day. Additionally, the average talks to OpenFeint originally
w h e n t h e y s t a r t r e c e i v i n g need to take drastic action to we're still a long way from that user plays three or four games appeared on The Unofficial
takedown notices, and may be avoid liability, even at the day. regularly -- unlike most other Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
even less receptive to sticking up e x p e n s e o f t h e r e s u l t i n g Permalink| Comments| Email consoles, the iPhone is really a Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:45:00
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Samsung gobbling up TV market share
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Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:32:00 AM
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Samsung Electronics' grip on
the flat-panel TV market is
tightening.
Samsung ships almost one in
five of all TVs in the world,
according to a DisplaySearch
report.(Credit: CNET)
Almost one in five televisions
shipped during the third quarter
of 2009 had a Samsung label on
it. That's according to
DisplaySearch, a market research
company that tracks sales of
TVs. As The Wall Street Journal
noted on Wednesday, Samsung's
17.2 percent--and growing--
share of the worldwide TV
market is a big deal. No
company has had a 20 percent
share of televisions since TVs
were first sold.
The speed with which Samsung
has overtaken its competitors is
fairly remarkable as well. Just
four years ago, the company
lagged behind Sony, who was
then the king of the new flat-
panel scene. Since passing Sony
Homebuilding begins year on bright note
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
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in sales, Samsung has doubled
the number of TVs it ships every
year. Samsung shipped 38
million TVs last year, according
to DisplaySearch, and a goal for
2010 is to sell 45 million TVs.
Sony, meanwhile, has
floundered in the market it once
dominated. Its worldwide market
share of flat-panel TVs is 5.9
percent, according to
DisplaySearch. That's behind LG
(14.8 percent), Panasonic (6.9
percent), and TCL
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New home construction in the
US began the year on a bright
note in January as renewed
government support for the
el (6.6 percent).
For Samsung, broad consumer
acceptance of flat-panel
technology has been a boon, and
it appears that the company plans
to milk it. Of the 38 million TVs
the company shipped last year,
27.5 million were liquid crystal
displays, or LCDs, and 3.5
million were plasma displays. An
executive told the Journal that
Samsung wants its total number
of flat-panel sets to increase to
39 million this year.
Samsung has been one of the
housing market helped to
stimulate building.
Separately on Wednesday, the
Federal Reserve said industrial
production had kept climbing
last month as the manufacturing
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major manufacturers pushing
LCD technology with light-
emitting diode, or LED,
backlighting, as well as Web-
connected sets, and focusing less
on new display technologies
such as organic light-emitting
diode, or OLED, technology.
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What is
this?
by John Biggs (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:00:47 AM
What is this strange orb-shaped
thing? Is it a Jedi Mind Trainer?
A strange onacup? A magical
ball of joy? Perhaps all of those
things are right… and none of
them.
This, my friends, is a prototype
Marshmallow Landmine. You
load this thing up with
marshmallows and it shoots them
off when enemies approach. It’s
part of the Marshmallowville
line of marshmallow guns
designed for kids, kids at heart,
and mercenary soldiers stuck
deep behind enemy lines in Peep
World.
The Landmine is just a
prototype, but it looks quite
delicious and lethal. They also
showed some new blasters at
their booth at the Toy Fair and I
even got to shoot some
marshmallows at a target.
Unfortunately, it was not a live
target.
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Sonic 4 not being developed by
Sega?
(CNET News.com)
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Sonic 4: Not made by
Sega?(Credit: Sega)
The Sonic the Hedgehog
franchise might have been
created by Sega, but reports are
swirling that Sonic the Hedgehog
4: Episode I, the latest in the
famed franchise, won't be
developed by Sega after all.
According to reports, Sonic 4
will be developed by a Japanese
developer named Dimps. The
news was originally reported by
Destructoid.
The evidence that Dimps, rather
than Sega, would be developing
Sonic 4 came from Microsoft's
Xbox Live Marketplace site
where the game is listed. The
listing says that Sega is
publishing Sonic 4, but Dimps
will be developing the game.
It shouldn't come as a surprise.
Linkin Park Sings For Haiti
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:40:00 AM
ET has the latest...
The best-selling band Linkin
Park is lending their support to
the Haitian earthquake victims
with their new video "Not
Dimps has developed several
Sonic games in the past,
including Sonic Advance and the
Sonic Rush titles the company
released a few years ago. Those
titles tended to be well-received
by game critics.
Sonic has yet to confirm that
Dimps is in fact developing the
game. I have contacted the
company for confirmation.
If it's true that Dimps will be
developing Sonic 4, I'm a little
saddened. Granted, the company
Alone." Click here to check it
out!
"Not Alone" is a song Linkin
Park wrote and recorded
specifically for the "Download to
Donate For Haiti" campaign,
which was launched by the
band's non-profit organization
has done a fine job developing
Sonic titles, but it's a Sega game.
And as a longtime gamer who
played the games that preceded
Sonic 4, I wish the company
could follow its past successes.
In some ways, it feels like the
end of an era.
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"Download to Donate For Haiti"
also features songs by Jack
Johnson, Weezer, The Crystal
Method and Metric.
Google makes it easier
to disable Buzz
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Still in a tizzy over disabling
Google Buzz?
Last week we took you through
a laborious step-by-step process
to disable Buzz, Google's new
social network. Google's
engineers made some quick
changes as a result of the
backlash, including a security
flaw affecting mobile Buzz
users, a setup process that has
you manually accepting
followers, and an easier way to
disable Buzz if you want to give
it the heave-ho.
Google finally lets you disable
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Buzz through the
Settings.(Credit: Screenshot by
Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
Now when you click the still-
tiny hyperlink at the bottom of
your Gmail screen that turns
Buzz off, you'll be taken to your
Settings screen, where you'll
have options about displaying
Buzz in Gmail, and even
disabling Google Buzz
completely. Choose this latter
option to nix Buzz in Gmail,
unfollow buddies, break off any
connected sites associated with
your name, and eradicate both
your Google Profile and Buzz
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Augmented Reality TUAW TV Live: more on
Tattoo Makes Your Skin the aftermath of Macworld
Come Alive [VIDEO] Expo at 5 PM ET
by Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:48:16 AM
We’ve seen some interesting
augmented reality experiments
emerging, from shoes as game
controllers to music videos to
recursive iPhones. But how
about AR as a form of body art?
A company called ThinkAnApp
has made that possible with an
augmented reality tattoo.
The tattoo’s design is simply a
square barcode marker on the
skin, but when seen through a
webcam an animated flying
dragon appears to be hovering
over the box. The Buenos Aires-
based ThinkAnApp developed
software that recognizes a
barcode on a curved surface (like
your body), making the flying
dragon overlay possible.
The below video demonstrates
the effect. It’s an initial test for
how the augmented reality
concept could be used to power
This is the Weirdest Mary Tyler Moore Thing You'll Ever See
by Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 12:33:00 PM
Even people who have a great
memory for TV won't remember
this. It's a special from 1976
by Steven Sande (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:00:00 PM
Filed under: Video, Podcasting
It's Wednesday, which means
that we'll have an episode of
TUAW TV Live streaming your
way later today. This is our first
even more creative tattoo art.
live video since Macworld Expo,
What do you think: Are AR
where TUAW bloggers of all
tattoos too gimmicky? Is it too
shapes, sizes, and abilities took
restrictive to require a webcam in
to the airwaves to give you the
order to get the full tat
scoop on every topic imaginable.
experience? Or should
We'll be back at 5 PM ET (2 PM
companies be working on other
PT) with an hour full of fun
devices with which to view AR
discussion. We'll have a demo of
content so that one day we can
the OWLE Bubo that was
achieve the futuristic cyberpunk
mocked by TUAW commenters,
dream of putting on sunglasses
yet praised and photographed
to see people’s skin spring to
repeatedly by showgoers at
life?
Macworld Expo. I'll also
[via BuzzFeed]
demonstrate and discuss a
Tags: AR, Augmented Reality,
growing toolbox of iPhone
tattoo, technology, wearables,
photography apps that I've been
webcam
using over the last few months
for my 2010 Project 365. There's
always time for questions and
called 'Mary's Incredible Dream.' to the web you can! Here's the
It was a...well, bizarre first part, and Jamie Weinman
experimental variety show has the rest at his great blog.
starring Mary Tyler Moore This was only a one-time special
where she dreams and...well, you (thankfully). Moore went on to
just have to watch it, and thanks do another variety show, 'Mary,'
Tech/ TV/ Entertainment/
discussion in the chat room, and
we look forward to hearing what
you have to say about this year's
Macworld event.
See you at 5 PM ET, here at
TUAW.com!
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Sarah Palin Blasts Use
of 'Retard,' Except for
Rush Limbaugh
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:56:00 AM
Former vice presidential
candidate Sarah Palin doesn't
find the humor in "Family Guy,"
calling the show "cruel and cold
hearted," yet she had kinder
words for Rush Limbaugh on the
same controversial issue.
Of a passing reference to her on
"Family Guy" made by a
character with Down syndrome,
Sarah said she took it personally
and found it to be offensive.
"This world is full of cruel, cold
hearted people who would do
such a thing," she told Bill
O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly
Factor" Tuesday night.
Her son Trig also has Down
syndrome. "Trig is going to have
a pretty tough, challenging life
ahead of him," she said. "Much
more difficult than we ever will,
so why make it tougher on the
special needs community? That's
what I thought when I first heard
about this episode."
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Palo Alto Plane Crash
Takes Out Power at
Facebook
by Jennifer Van Grove
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:36:25 AM
Update: 3 employees of electric
car maker Tesla Motors were
killed in the crash.
Facebook is currently suffering
from a power outage at its Palo
Alto home office, and the outage
appears to be linked to a small
but fatal plane crash that
occurred earlier this morning in
East Palo Alto.
Per local news outlets, a twin-
engine Cessna with three people
on board crashed into
transmission lines 377 feet above
ground in East Palo Alto. The
plane exploded upon impact, the
crash causing power outages in
East Palo Alto and Palo Alto.
The plane crash took place
shortly after launch around 7:50
a.m. local time, and the accident
is being attributed to fog.
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1Password on your iPad
by Brett Terpstra (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
taking the new form factor into
consideration and generating a
very usable interface. I'm really
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:42:00 PM
Filed under: Software, iPad
looking forward to getting my
hands on the iPad version,
pending the purchase of an iPad,
1Password, the oft-mentioned of course. Check out the post at
password manager and form the developer's blog for a better
filler, has just posted mockups of look!
their in-the-works iPad version. TUAW 1Password on your iPad
Previously available on the originally appeared on The
desktop and for the iPhone, Unofficial Apple Weblog
1Password has undergone some (TUAW) on Wed, 17 Feb 2010
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but it’s quite likely as tweets with a few nice visual tweaks,
and take full advantage of the The developers (and their
from Facebook and Brandee
graphic designer) appear to be
Barker confirm that the Palo Alto large touch area of the iPad.
-based company is suffering
from power outages. Facebook’s
website, however, appears to 3 Tesla Motors Employees Killed in
operating without a hiccup.
Update: It is now being reported
that the three people killed in the
Palo Alto Plane Crash
crash were Tesla employees. It is by Christina Warren airport when the plane departed,
not believed at this time that
(Mashable!) identiifed him as a high-ranking
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was on Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:35:16 AM official at Tesla Motors with two
the Cessna in question. other of the firm’s employees
Reviews: Facebook It has been confirmed that the onboard. Authorities, however,
Tags: facebook, palo alto three passengers aboard the have not released the names of
plane that crashed in Palo Alto the victims.
earlier today were executives at We’ll continue to add details as
electric car maker Tesla Motors. this story develops.
Fox News has confirmed that victims, however, the plane Our thoughts go out to the
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who also belonged to senior electrical victims families and co-workers.
co-founded PayPal, was not engineer Doug Bourn. [img via jalopnik]
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has not released an official Daniel Morales, who told crash, tesla motors
statement and authorities have KTVU he had previously flown
not released the names of the with the pilot and was at the
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Iran Contrarians
by Michael Crowley (The New “There is no revolution afoot in Iranian regime’s biggest bureaucratic incompetence, in suburban McLean, Virginia.
Republic - All Feed) Iran, and the social base of this intellectual defenders? including an office so unkempt The Leveretts voted for Barack
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movement is not growing; it is, In the fall of 2001, Hillary Mann that Condoleezza Rice herself Obama in 2008, but, despite his
in fact, shrinking,” Flynt recently saw Flynt deliver a speech on the was appalled. While admitting efforts to broker a dialogue with
Message from fivefilters.org: If said on PBS’s “NewsHour.” He Arab-Israeli peace process and that he keeps “a messy desk,” Tehran, they found his attempts
you can, please donate to the full has made his case everywhere fell for him. Flynt was then a Flynt denies this account.) Flynt lacking and soon turned on him
-text RSS service so we can from msnbc to “The Daily CIA officer with a Princeton went on to advise John Kerry’s as well. By last spring, they were
continue developing it. Show” to The New York Times Ph.D., on assignment to the State presidential campaign and warning that Obama had already
Say what you want about op-ed page, where he and his Department’s policy planning worked a stint at the Brookings “lost” Iran, complaining that he
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but “he wife have made three shared staff. Hillary, nearly ten years his Institution. In 2006, Hillary had not halted Bush-era covert
knows how to work a room.” So appearances since late May. junior at 33, was a Brandeis and formed the consulting firm programs against Iran’s nuclear
claims Flynt Leverett, the To the Leveretts, Ahmadinejad’s Harvard law graduate working at Stratega, which advises program. They also complained
contrarian Iran analyst who, with Bill Clinton-like personal touch the United Nations. When Flynt corporate clients on Middle that Secretary of State Hillary
his wife Hillary Mann Leverett, underscores their argument that, asked Hillary to lunch, he told Eastern politics. Clinton and White House Iran
paid a visit to the Iranian far from a thug repressing his the Times’ “Vows” column, That same year, the Leveretts point man Dennis Ross were too
president in New York City last people, he is, in fact, a charming “there was no plausible began bashing Bush’s Iran policy hawkish. “The administration’s
fall. During the sit-down at leader with broad Iranian support deniability” it was a date. By the --specifically his rejection of a approach to Iran degenerates into
Manhattan’s InterContinental --and one whose true nature the time the two married in February May 2003 memo from a mid- an only slightly prettified version
Barclay hotel with a group of United States fails to understand. 2003, they were both working on level Iranian diplomat offering of George W. Bush’s approach,”
invited academics, foreign policy And, in any case, they say, moral Bush’s National Security comprehensive talks with the they wrote in a May 24 piece for
p r o f e s s i o n a l s , a n d o t h e r indignation over his regime’s Council (he as director for the United States that would include the Times, one that noticeably
I r a n o p h i l e s , t h e L e v e r e t t s character distracts us from clear Middle East, she as director for Iran’s nuclear program. echoed Tehran’s position. And
marveled at Ahmadinejad’s s t r a t e g i c t h i n k i n g . B o t h Iran and Afghanistan), planning Cheneyite hawks certainly had then came the June 12 Iranian
attention to detail as the Iranian economic sanctions and the their wedding during breaks no interest in such a deal, but election.
took copious notes and strove to Green Movement will fail to from planning the Iraq war. “I even former Secretary of State In the days after the election,
pronounce their unfamiliar contain Ahmadinejad’s nuclear find it a bit hard to think of the Colin Powell has cast doubt on many foreign observers were
names correctly. “He addresses ambitions. America’s only Bush White House as the Love whether the offer represented the sure it had been rigged. The
every person by name. He made choice is to engage Iran, nuclear Boat,” cracked their best man, regime’s true thinking. Still, the votes had been counted
a serious effort to address bomb or no. For that, they have Richard Haass, then a senior media thrilled to the idea that a suspiciously quickly, and
everyone’s issue,” Flynt says. “It earned the enmity of former State Department official, in his bellicose Bush had rejected talks. Ahmadinejad’s alleged 63
was really striking, the retail friends and colleagues--and even toast. When the Leveretts sought to percent to 34 percent margin of
politics aspect.” drawn death threats. “We are The Bush White House may publish a New York Times op-ed victory struck many Iran experts
As former Bush White House portrayed as un-American, have brought them together, but on the subject in December as implausible given the huge
officials, the Leveretts might s t o o g e s o f t h e r e g i m e , ” the couple soon turned against it. 2006, the White House insisted crowds supporting his
seem unlikely company for the c o m p l a i n s H i l l a r y . Flynt says he left his job the on censoring it, and the Times challenger, Mir Hossein
d i m i n u t i v e t y r a n t . B u t But it’s not the Leveretts’ ultra- month after his wedding out of theatrically published the heavily Mousavi. But, writing in
Ahmadinejad has reason to realist policy views that are so disillusionment with Bush’s redacted version anyway. An Politico, the Leveretts argued
admire the married Middle East discomfiting. It is the sense that hawkish Middle East policies. Esquire profile soon cast the against “wishful thinking.”
analysts. They are, after all, the they cross a line into making Hillary departed soon after, Leveretts as heroic dissidents “Ahmadinejad won. get over it,”
most prominent voices in the apologies for the loathsome spending several months at the standing athwart another blind huffed their headline. In early
U.S. media arguing that he was Ahmadinejad. And that makes State Department before leaving march to war. The couple’s new January, they took to the Times
legitimately reelected last June, for one of Washington’s most government. (One former White cachet drew influential
and that the opposition Green intriguing mysteries: How did House official says that Flynt Washingtonians to salon dinners IRAN page 40
Movement is a flash in the pan. two ex-Bush aides become the didn’t quit but was fired for they began holding at their home
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The moderate middle is
disappearing from Congress.
Evan Bayh is just the latest
senator to forgo a re-election bid,
joining a growing line of
pragmatic, find-a-way politicians
who are abandoning
Washington. Still here: ever-
more-polarized colleagues
locked in gridlock — exactly
what voters say they don't like
about politics in the nation's
capital.
Politics runs in cycles, and the
Senate has seen flights of self-
styled centrists before. In 1996,
for example, 10 senators who
could boast strong bipartisan
credentials chose to retire rather
than re-up. Many of them
complained how lonely a place
the middle ground of American
politics had become. But to
some, the center has become
even lonelier.
More than their feelings are at
stake. The moderates in the
middle are the ones who tend to
make deals and sometimes
resolve standoffs blocking
decisions that affect programs —
not to mention taxes — that
touch virtually every American.
Former Sen. William Cohen
says what's happening now is a
continuation of the "hollowing
out of the middle." An article he
wrote when he left his Senate
seat in 1996, lamenting partisan
gridlock, could just as easily be
reprinted now, subbing his name
for that of Bayh, the Indiana
Democrat who announced on
Monday he won't run again.
"There is this sort of purging in
both parties," Cohen said in an
interview. "They insist on
moving to the left or moving to
the right, and I think you're
seeing over the years the
moderates have disappeared and
continue to disappear."
The few left in the middle can
gain outsized power to decide the
fate of closely fought issues. But
that comes at a price more and
more of them say is too high:
crushing pressure to conform,
shrill media barbs and the
increased fight for cash to shape
one's own campaign narrative.
"I simply reached a conclusion
that I could get more done to
help my state and the American
people by doing something in the
private sector," said Bayh, the
two-term senator and former
governor, on ABC's Good
Morning America on Tuesday.
"Real accomplishments in a real
way."
That's an extraordinary
statement on the anniversary of
the $787 billion stimulus
package that was supposed to
energize the economy. Rather
than heed President Barack
Obama's appeal for pragmatism,
Congress is losing its value as a
problem-solver and becoming
more unworkable, according to
Bayh.
Polls say voters hate that about
national politics. Lawmakers
profess to dislike the
polarization, too, but they still
engage in it, on the House or
Senate floor, in private meetings,
or both. And on the campaign
trail, the truth is there's cash to
be made by taking sides and, in
effect, becoming a dependable
brand.
"If you're on either fringe of the
party, you have an easier time
raising money," said one who
would know, Sen. Arlen Specter,
who left the GOP for the
Democrats when he found he
could not win a Pennsylvania
Republican primary. "I have to
work a lot harder than somebody
who has an ideological base."
Calling from a fundraising
swing through California,
Nevada, Arizona and Tennessee,
Specter said sticking around
awhile — three decades in his
case — can produce a brand of
independence he is hoping fits
the public's populist streak.
"I think the independents are
going to be in a position to pick
the winners and losers," he said.
And moderates? An endangered
species?
Moderates, said Darrell West,
vice president and director of
governance studies at the
Brookings Institution, are "going
the way of the dinosaur."
"Soon we're going be able to go
to museums to the see the
skeletons of the centrists and
learn about what they were,"
West said.
It could be argued that fresh
blood may be a good thing for an
institution many view as broken.
But some fresh faces are turning
down the chance to run, even
after being asked by the
president.
In Illinois, a would-be strong
candidate, Lisa Madigan,
spurned Obama's pressure to run.
That could reflect Obama's lack
of pull — one year into office —
but it also says something about
the desirability of serving on
Capitol Hill given the public's
disdain for Congress.
The lament of partisan gridlock
is a well-worn element of
lawmakers' farewell speeches.
Former Republican Senate leader
Bill Frist of Tennessee, a
physician, lectured his
colleagues about it on the way
out the door in 2006. Former
Republican Sen. Trent Lott of
Mississippi appeared with
former Democratic President Bill
Clinton and former GOP House
Speaker Newt Gingrich earlier
this year to urge the parties to get
along.
But tellingly, no Republicans
were present in the Senate when
Democrat Paul Kirk, turning
over the seat held by the late
Sen. Edward Kennedy to
Republican Scott Brown earlier
this month, spoke about the lack
of comity in the chamber.
Not so long ago, Senate seats
were among the most sought-
after positions in the land. They
meant power and prestige, some
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posturing but also some
significant problem-solving.
Now, many believe the
$174,000 salary just isn't worth
it.
Besides the personal costs —
being a lawmaker means being
screamed at during summer town
hall meetings and vilified around
the clock in multimedia fashion
— the more polarized Congress
becomes, the less its members
can accomplish.
There's "too much narrow
ideology and not enough
practical problem-solving" on
Capitol Hill, Bayh said as he
announced his retirement. "I do
not love Congress."
Veteran Rep. Barney Frank, D-
Mass., said Bayh could do more
to change that by staying.
"I don't understand how you
make things better from the
outside. I share the frustration,
but I would have hoped he would
have stayed around."
Plenty of lawmakers are still
hoping to do that. But a long and
bipartisan list of Senate leaders
who have chosen to fight for re-
election — from Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to
California Democrat Barbara
Boxer and Sen. John McCain,
the GOP's nominee for president
last year — are feeling the anti-
incumbent squeeze.
Others are saying the
congressional life is simply not
worth it, and the list of casualties
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Weak Brew
by Lydia DePillis (The New certificate?’” Farah crowed from release thanks to years of is contributing to something of a Nashville convention are the
Republic - All Feed) the podium. orchestrating mergers and schism within their movement. antithesis of what the movement
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The assembled conservatives acquisitions. Integral to the Tea Party ethos is should be about. “What’s the
guffawed and cheered through Like most tea partiers, Skoda-- a kind of anti-politics: Both difference between what he’s
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you can, please donate to the full -which went on to describe radio show in Memphis three bankrupt, tea partiers say, and, government being tyrannical?”
-text RSS service so we can Obama’s plot to destroy the free- times a week--tells the familiar for some, “Republican” is an asks Mark Herr, leader of the
continue developing it. enterprise system and build a story of being woken up by cnbc even dirtier word than Mid-South Tea Party, which split
M a r k S k o d a , o n e o f t h e socialist state in its stead--but host Rick Santelli’s on-air rant “Democrat.” But the pragmatists off from Skoda’s Memphis
organizers of the first-ever Skoda just stared blankly ahead, against mortgage bailouts last believe that, at least for the group in late spring. “There’s a
national Tea Party convention in looking down occasionally to February. He took charge of the moment, getting what they want rebellion against top-down
Nashville, is no revolutionary. “I fiddle with his iPhone. He Memphis Tea Party shortly is going to require working leadership and a desire for
get irritated when people say, couldn’t have been pleased. thereafter, spoke at rallies during within the two-party system. bottom-up government.”
‘Let’s take our country back.’ S k o d a a n d c o n v e n t i o n the spring and summer, and “The reality of life is, I’d be On the last day of the
We have a country,” he told one mastermind Judson Phillips have brought a busload of protesters shocked if we elected any convention, Herr and three other
interviewer at the three-day-long ambitious goals for the Tea Party to Washington last September. independents this year,” says Tea Party Nation defectors
gathering earlier this month. “In movement. They aim to build When the planned national Phillips. “So it’s gonna be showed up at the Opryland Hotel
America, we only have to move their respective groups (Skoda is convention was reeling from Republicans to get a to hold a press conference. In the
the dial a little bit. We’re not off founding a Tea Party PAC; negative press coverage in early conservative majority." preceding weeks, they had united
the rails. I encourage people to Phillips heads an organization January, Skoda called up Phillips Political realism, however, isn’t 34 of the state’s Tea Party
not emotionalize things.” As the called Tea Party Nation) into --a Nashville criminal-defense what the Tea Party base wants to groups into the Tennessee Tea
convention’s spokesman, Skoda p o l i t i c a l p l a y e r s t h a t c a n attorney who was organizing the hear. Skoda alienated much of Party Coalition and wanted the
would spend the weekend i n f l u e n c e v o t e s a n d t u g glitzy affair--to ask if he could his Memphis group by media to know that they were the
laboring to put a respectable, candidates in their direction. But help. unilaterally opting to endorse real grassroots endeavor. Though
moderate face on the burgeoning their quandary is as plain as the Skoda rationalizes some of the and fund local candidates. And they declined to level outright
movement, bragging at one point expression on Skoda’s face Tea Party’s rough edges as a several Tea Party activists attacks against the tea partiers
that the conference was a during Farah’s paranoid Friday necessity of movement-building. grumbled about Phillips’s participating in the convention
“businesslike environment with night monologue: How can a “I think it’s always useful to get decision to invite politicians to (“We don’t want to be drug into
no signs, no crazy hats,” where movement whose base detests people excited,” he says. “Part of speak at the convention. “They a contest with them,” one
tea partiers were “positioned as mainstream politics--not to this movement is visceral. It’s need to hear from us, not us explained), they did complain
responsible adults.” mention, has a few screws loose- perfectly okay.” But he is much hearing from them,” says one about the event’s exclusivity and
So I couldn’t help but watch -possibly build political clout? more interested in practical dissident who had previously left suggest that Phillips is
Skoda as he sat in a huge Skoda, who, at the convention, politics than in bombast. Phillips’s organization. Add to excessively sympathetic to the
ballroom on the convention’s wore a black turtleneck under a Between speeches, he led a this a number of other internal GOP.
second night, listening to Joseph sport coat, doesn’t fit the Tea session on using Internet tools to disagreements--for instance, Whether the tea partiers will
Farah, the mustachioed editor of Party stereotype. An information run campaigns on the cheap. Phillips pushed out several prove too busy fighting among
the far-right-wing website - s y s t e m s e x e c u t i v e f o r (“This is just what I need,” said a volunteers when they protested themselves to fight the
WorldNetDaily, work the crowd multinational corporations, he man thinking about running for Tea Party Nation’s for-profit Republicans, the Democrats, and
of 600 into a frenzy. “If Barack has lived all over the world, Congress in Ohio.) Meanwhile, status--and the Tea Party the system writ large is anyone’s
Obama even seeks reelection as picked up multiple languages (I Skoda’s new PAC will funnel movement has sometimes guess. But Skoda is pragmatic
president in 2012, he won’t be w a t c h e d h i m c h a r m a Tea Party money into campaigns seemed to be on the verge of enough to know that he can’t cut
able to go to any city, any hamlet correspondent from Japan by that he thinks conservative devouring itself.
in America without seeing signs chatting in Japanese), and Republicans can win. To the sidelined activists, WEAK page 41
that ask, ‘Where’s the birth learned his way around a press Skoda and Phillips’s philosophy Skoda’s approach and the
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by Buzz Bissinger (The New
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The New Orleans Saints’
strategy in last month’s NFC
championship game was
primitive and perfectly suited:
Take advantage of quarterback
Brett Favre’s 40-year-old body
by inflicting a caveman’s
clubbing. Hundreds of pounds of
muscle and anger and adrenaline
hit him at high speed a total of
17 times, and Favre, perhaps
playing the last game of his
career, managed to withstand the
punishment until the third
quarter, when he severely hurt
his ankle. He limped on the
sidelines and was basically
immobile and should have taken
himself out of the game then,
regardless of the stakes. But it
was never going to happen,
because pain in public for Brett
Favre has always been
dependable publicity.
The more Favre got whipped,
the more you could hear the
brains of the sportswriters sifting
for the clichés of glory and
tragedy that have passed for
analysis since the days of
Grantland Rice. The next day,
John Feinstein wrote on the
Washington Post website that
Favre had “come to embody
Hamlet” and described him as
“heroic” and “tragic.” Larry
Canale wrote on a New York
Times blog that Favre “was as
game as ever, and he would not
quit.” James Penrice at Catholic
Online wrote that it was time to
“give Favre his due as a man
whose spiritual strength
overcomes the weakness of mind
and body.”
Oh My God ...
Brett Favre wasn’t heroic. He
was a hubristic fool. He wasn’t a
warrior. He was an arrogant
braggart who, whatever the
homespun hokum of his
Mississippi roots, perversely
reveled in his pain to the point
where his agent publicly
disseminated pictures of his
injuries like cheesecake photos--
a deep-purple ankle lumpish and
swollen, an equally deep-purple
hamstring. The pictures did what
Favre hoped they would: further
reinforce his image as The
Gladiator, The Samurai, The
White Knight for whom guts in
football, however stupid and
wanton, is what counts.
The sportswriters should be
partially excused. They were
writing on deadline and
searching for an angle, which
Favre supplied: the removal of
his uniform pants after the game
like a slow striptease; the
disclosure that, when he hurt his
ankle, he could hear a crunching
sound inside; the walk through
the tunnel of the Superdome to
meet his wife and children as if it
were a tracking shot straight out
of Scorsese. He has always been
clinically grandiose beneath the
“aw-shucks” country boy cover.
He knows what sportswriters
crave, not just the junk food of
the noble warrior but the soul-
aching confessional, which
largely accounts for why he
admitted to being a Vicodin
addict in 1996. He knew that,
when he decided to play a
football game the night after his
father died in 2003, it would not
be perceived for the act of self-
absorption it was, but as an act of
courage after he carefully spun it
as that’s what pappy would have
wanted.
Favre has crafted his public
persona as carefully as Tiger
Woods, only more so. Unlike
Tiger, Favre knew when to out
himself, in his case, for drug use,
before someone else did it for
him. He relished the soap opera
of whether he would come back
last season after saying he had
retired, acting like a general
being begged to return to the
field of battle.
Woods is still a great competitor
and winner, his superhuman
confidence on the golf course
earned. Favre has the same
confidence on the football field,
but it has caused him to have a
schizophrenic career, sometimes
great but not great overall.
Supporters will point to the NFL
records he holds for passing
yards and touchdowns. He will
get in the Hall of Fame. But, if
the goal is to win it all, which it
is, Favre should have done it
more than just once in 19
seasons.
He has thrown a record 30
interceptions in postseason
games, not because he was
always hurried in the pocket, but
because of his delusions of
magnificence in thinking he
could always connect, even when
three defensive backs enveloped
a receiver. To their credit, many
sportswriters pointed this out in
their accounts of the
championship. He did it with less
than 20 seconds left in the fourth
quarter against the Saints,
throwing a pass across his body
that had no chance of completion
and a much greater chance of
interception, which is what
happened and what led to his
team’s loss in overtime, 31-28.
He threw a devastating
interception two years earlier in a
playoff game against the New
York Giants. And the same
against the Philadelphia Eagles
in a playoff game a couple of
years before that.
Against the Saints, he could
have scrambled for at least
several yards to set up a likely
winning field goal and a trip to
the Super Bowl. But he could not
scramble because he could not
run. He could not run because of
the combination of the ankle
injury and the Saints’ merciless
rush. It was their sadism versus
his masochism, football S&M,
and the sadists always come out
on top.
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Even still, Favre’s playing in
agony was a spectacle the public
loved--and a remarkably
pernicious one at that. The
millions of kids who look up to
him, from Pop Warner to high
school, will believe that the only
way to play is at the expense of
your body and that any thought
of later consequences is the
domain of cowards. And the
NFL--which has taken its share
of criticism recently over what
appears to have been a complete
disregard for the long-term
effects of injuries in pro football,
particularly head injuries--can
rest easy that the ultimate impact
of investigations into the game’s
brutality will be minimal. Fans
don’t want a less bloody product.
Water the game’s violent core
down and what do you have?
Soccer with more scoring.
Brett Favre buys into that vision
of football as well as anyone, for
now. Ten years hence, when, like
so many other former players, he
may only be able to hobble from
place to place, he might
reconsider. But, if he can’t walk,
will it really matter?
Buzz Bissinger is the author of
Friday Night Lights, A Prayer
for the City, and, most recently,
Shooting Stars, co-written with
LeBron James.
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Obama's World
by The Editors (The New Marja. Republic, when the president open disdain and mendacity at temporary. Pointing this out is
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address last December, Obama of a trade delegation, but also the embarrassed administration made by pretending that the wars
clung awkwardly to his more substantive slights. Toning seems to be getting serious about never happened, or that the wars
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Let’s face it. America’s foreign w o r d s , h e e n s h r i n e d h i s refusal to consider sanctioning there are concentrated a series of Palestines now. One of them, in
policy is hardly healthier than its ambivalence into his policy. Or, Iran to its brazen efforts to political and humanitarian Gaza, is explicitly committed to
economy. Of course, jobs and as war correspondent Dexter sabotage climate negotiations in cataclysms that we would have the destruction of the Jewish
taxes still dominate the politics Filkins writes in this issue (“The Copenhagen, China has thought might exercise the state--and is a grim portent of
of the day. Republicans will American Awakening,” page increasingly been flexing its president’s liberal constituencies, what could happen within an
likely be running election 23), “The president announced muscles at our expense. if not the president himself. Alas, independent Palestine. The other,
campaigns on those matters. But, an escalation and a de-escalation Turn the globe west to Moscow, not. To Sudan, Obama has in the West Bank, is partially
as foreign policy comes into in the same speech. You have the and you will find a more dispatched a solicitous envoy committed to coexistence and
focus more and more, Democrats resources now, he seemed to say, modulated version of the who seems bent on conciliation afraid to act in a moderate way.
may seek refuge from Barack but your time is short. ... But the Chinese stratagems. Peter with the country’s rulers. It is a Will Obama ever recognize this?
Obama’s grand strategy and its fact remains that with those Rutland of Wesleyan University blinkered strategy that suggests a After a year of the Obama
consequences--or lack thereof. crucial sentences, Obama bared argues that Obama’s “reset” has gangster government can commit presidency, these reservations
F o r , r i g h t n o w , O b a m a ’ s his intentions, and even his soul. actually misfired. Every time genocide (twice!) and still be about its foreign policy are not
frustrated foreign policy is little ... [I]t is difficult to imagine that President Dmitri Medvedev has offered “carrots” by the world’s ideological--they are empirical.
more than aimlessness. the Taliban--and the Pakistanis-- hinted that his government might superpower. Meanwhile, the The thrust of Obama’s strategy
His biggest decision to date has have not concluded that the lend us a hand, Prime Minister human rights emergencies in has been to rebuild U.S.
been Afghanistan. During the Americans will soon be gone.” If Vladimir Putin has stepped Congo and Zimbabwe have been credibility and create space for
c a m p a i g n , O b a m a s p o k e the president holds to these forward to gleefully crush these all but ignored. cooperation on our key priorities.
repeatedly (and in contrast to his deadlines, we will be no closer to prospects. Even after a As for Obama’s grand foreign But evidence of such success has
words on Iraq) of the battle there our goals than when we began. celebrated agreement allowing policy project--peace between yet to materialize. Obama acted
a s t h e g o o d w a r - - a b i t Thus, we hope he listens to the American troops and supplies Israel and the Palestinians--it has on his dream and, thus far, has
unconvinced himself, as his advice of Robert Gates and into Afghanistan through gone exactly nowhere. He has failed. Nobody likes to have his
lengthy review of his war policy Hillary Clinton, who have Russian airspace, Moscow has struck an adversarial tone with dream refuted by reality; but it is
revealed, and certainly not counseled against premature reportedly only allowed a small the Israelis in hopes of winning time for the reality-based
convincing to many of his departure. trickle of flights. over the Palestinians. But his community to act reality-based.
enthusiasts. But Afghanistan is Now find a globe and twirl it. It Move your fingers south toward strategy has flopped so badly We await this president’s
the war on which the Democrats is hard to find examples of Tehran. It is there that Obama’s that it has merely left Mahmoud learning curve.
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resulted in the effective capture modalities it stagemanaged for against its own people-and the lines, defined in the truce
of the Taliban stronghold of Obama’s visit to the People’s dictatorship reciprocated with agreements as nothing but
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IRAN
continued from page 35
again to dismiss the significance
of large anti-Ahmadinejad
protests that had occurred the
week before, arguing that pro-
government crowds had been
larger and that Mousavi had
become “increasingly
marginalized.”
It’s not obvious that this
analysis is wrong--especially in
the wake of disappointing Green
turnout last week on the
anniversary of the 1979 Iranian
revolution--although, in a state
willing to beat, arrest, and even
kill protesters, gauging the
popular mood is never simple.
But the Leveretts’ argument
doesn’t stop with an assessment
of Iranian opinion. That was
clear when I met with them at the
New America Foundation, where
Flynt is a fellow. (He also
teaches at Penn State
University.) Now 51, Flynt is
tall, with close-cut gray hair, a
salt-and-pepper goatee, and the
fastidious manner common to
national security professionals--a
contrast to his chatty wife, now
42. I asked the Leveretts why, if
Ahmadinejad enjoys such broad
support, his regime has cracked
down so brutally. In fact, they
told me, Ahmadinejad has shown
restraint. “It’s become politically
incorrect and impossible to say
it, but ... this government hasn’t
even begun to deploy the force
it’s capable of using,” says
Hillary. Even the videotaped
shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan
on a Tehran street was an
“exceptional” and “isolated”
case, she says. “There’s a
slightly flippant counter-
response,” Flynt says with a wry
grin. “Why did the Nixon
campaign order the break-in at
the Democratic National
Committee headquarters in the
Watergate building when it was
clear Nixon was going to win
reelection by a landslide?” The
Leveretts also sought to account
for Ahmadinejad’s threats
against Israel as shrewd regional
politics. “It does get to him when
he’s described to the outside
world as anti-Semitic. He would
describe himself as anti-Zionist,”
Flynt explains. “Resistance to
Israel is an important theme to
him. ... If it’s crazy, it’s crazy
like a fox.”
The Leveretts are not just
isolated politically, but also
personally. After Haass, now
president of the Council on
Foreign Relations, wrote a recent
Newsweek essay urging a U.S.
push for regime change in Iran,
the Leveretts posted a
contemptuous online response
that mocked their best man’s
involvement in planning the Iraq
war. Haass, who declined to
comment, is said to have been
furious. Another person who
once considered himself a good
friend of the couple now says
he’s lost touch with them in part
due to their policy views. And,
when asked about erstwhile
dinner guest Karim Sadjadpour,
a prominent Iran expert at the
Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Flynt
acknowledges, “Once upon a
time, we were closer to him than
we are now. There are other
people like that.” The Obama
administration is also baffled at
how a couple that once cheered it
on now accuses it of “diplomatic
incompetence.” “I hear from
very senior people in the
administration who say, ‘What
are Flynt and Hillary doing?’”
says New America’s Steven
Clemons. Meanwhile, the
Leveretts say they have been sent
blood-spattered photographs of a
dead Neda Soltan bearing the
message: This should be you.
Some former friends and
colleagues say the Leveretts
seem to have changed. Flynt
voted for Bush in 2000 and says
he didn’t oppose the Iraq war
“on principle”--although he has
been accused of softness on
Middle Eastern strongmen
before, including in a book he
wrote about Syrian President
Bashar Al Assad. His wife’s
resumé is more surprising.
Hillary, who volunteers that she
is Jewish, studied at Tel Aviv
University and worked briefly at
the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee and the
Washington Institute for Near
East Policy. At the latter, she
denounced efforts in 1997 to
engage Iran’s then-relatively
moderate leadership and called
for an economic crackdown
against the country. “This is not
the Hillary we remember,” says
one ex-Bush White House
official.
What happened? Some critics
accuse the Leveretts of becoming
corporate shills. Their salon
dinners, for instance, have
included executives from oil
companies that have done
business in Iran, including
Norway-based Statoil and
French Total. The Leveretts
firmly deny that they are
peddling access or trying to
affect policy for corporate gain.
Steve Coll, president of the New
America Foundation, says he
recently conducted a review of
their business ties and is
“entirely satisfied there is no
conflict. ... The idea that their
ideas are compromised is
without foundation.”
Perhaps the Leveretts were
transformed by what they saw as
Bush’s blown opportunity to deal
with Iran. Hillary says her
dealings with Iranian diplomats
as a Bush White House aide at
the start of the Afghanistan war
made her understand Tehran’s
willingness to engage. “It seems
that the Leveretts are almost
frozen in time circa 2003 on
this,” says Tufts University
E-reader News Edition
professor Daniel Drezner. The
Leveretts have also come to
accept the realist critique that
Israel occupies too great a role in
America’s foreign policy
calculus; Flynt clashed with
fellow Bush officials about what
peace-process concessions Israel
should be asked to make, for
instance. “For a lot of pro-Israel
groups, these [views of Iran] are
non-starters,” he says.
Or perhaps, on some level, they
have actually grown to admire
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In our
meeting, I pressed them to say
just how they feel about the
Iranian leader. Geopolitics aside,
did they consider him a
despicable human being? “I
think he’s actually a quite
intelligent man,” Flynt replied. “I
think he also has really
extraordinary political skills.”
“[T]he idea that he’s stupid or
doesn’t understand retail politics
is also pretty divorced from
reality,” Hillary added. But that
wasn’t the question.
Michael Crowley is a senior
editor of The New Republic.
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Ex-Ebay CEO Defends Strategy in Calif. Gov's Race

(Newsmax - Politics) has started granting limited Whitman's campaign platform plant owned by the government. fund it," she said.
Submitted at 2/16/2010 11:22:26 PM interviews. has focused on creating private- I don't know that that makes Whitman is also proposing to
Instead, she has been airing sector jobs, improving education sense." trim the state work force by
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Former eBay chief executive through the $39 million she has has led to a steep drop in tax and persistent, slow cuts, she workers retire each year. She
Meg Whitman on Tuesday given to her campaign; Whitman revenue, forcing state lawmakers said. declined to specify which
dismissed criticism that she is has said she is willing to spend and Gov. Arnold "We are going to find $100 agencies or programs she would
trying to buy the California $100 million or more on the Schwarzenegger to cut more than million here, $50 million there, target, but said she would be
governor's seat by spending race. $18 billion from core state $300 million there — and that's willing to offer more specifics
millions from her personal She said she is not worried services over the past two years. how we're going to close this later in her campaign.
fortune. about the prospect of a media The state faces another $20 budget deficit," she said. "I can She also noted that she has
The Republican candidate blitz attacking her candidacy, billion shortfall through June tell you from having managed agreed to a March 15 debate
responded to questions about her and said she did not expect her 2011, a prospect that is expected costs in business for 30 years, against Poizner, who has
spending as an independent personal wealth to be an obstacle to lead to even more cuts. there's never a silver bullet. criticized her for failing to debate
Democratic group prepares to with voters. Whitman is a Whitman has not released a There's not a $15 billion cost in the past.
launch a media offensive against b i l l i o n a i r e , a f o r t u n e detailed budget proposal of her reduction item in this budget. It's "I'm sure there will be plenty of
her. accumulated largely during her own, but on Tuesday said she about being smart about every debates between March 15 and
"What I'm trying to do is run a time overseeing the online would favor privatizing some penny you spend." the primary," Whitman said.
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Whitman has been criticized for June primary, she is likely to "I wouldn't privatize agencies, gem, and one of the few selling
f a i l i n g t o t a l k w i t h n e w s face Attorney General Jerry but I'd like to look at — are there points California still has to
reporters in California while B r o w n , t h e p r e s u m e d certain services we can provide promote itself.
instead launching a nationwide Democratic nominee, in the more cost-effectively?" she said. "Let's not destroy this. Let's fully
book tour, although she recently general election. "For example, we have a printing fund the UC system, let's fully
WEAK
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the non-pragmatists out of the
coalition altogether. And so, his
vision of winning elections
remains in an awkward marriage
of convenience with the likes of
Farah, and anyone else who
doubts Obama’s citizenship.
“Look, Joseph Farah--when you
look at the statistics and the
polling, there are some people
who believe this is problematic,”
he told me, referring to the birth
certificate. “Do I agree with all Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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BAYH
Democrats Scramble in Indiana continued from page 36

is bipartisan.
(Newsmax - Politics) office reports it received just Rep. John Hostettler said he also raised nearly $13 million for his Bayh and veteran Democratic
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:26:21 AM three signatures for her by had enough signatures, as did campaign and facing little- Sens. Christopher Dodd of
Tuesday's deadline. state Sen. Marlin Stutzman of known Republican opposition Connecticut and Sen. Byron
Message from fivefilters.org: If Mr. Coats won't have a clear Howe, who filed for the primary until national Republicans Dorgan, D-N.D., are choosing to
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-text RSS service so we can at least four other Republicans Bates Jr. of Winchester filed last race. N.H. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart,
continue developing it. expect to be on the ballot. week for the Republican Mr. Bayh has not said what he R-Fla., and other GOP House
INDIANAPOLIS - The Coats spokesman Kevin primary. will do with his campaign members from Michigan,
Republicans have their best- Kellems said Hoosiers had A spokesman for businessman money. Indiana, Arkansas and Arizona
known recruit officially in the responded with "tremendous Richard Behney, an activist in Christian Hilland, a spokesman have announced retirements.
race as state Democrats are still enthusiasm" in helping gather the the state's "tea party" movement, for the Federal Election Vice President Joe Biden's son,
scrambling to find a candidate a required 4,500 signatures since said he also had enough Commission, said Mr. Bayh had Beau, chose not to run for a
day after Democratic Sen. Evan M r . C o a t s a n n o u n c e d h i s signatures to get on the ballot. to refund more than $570,000 he legacy seat in Delaware. No
Bayh's stunning decision not to c a m p a i g n o n F e b . 3 . Mr. Stutzman said Tuesday he received that is earmarked Kennedys, let alone political
seek a third term this fall. Mr. Coats, 66, spent 10 years in had traveled the state for more specifically for the 2010 general heavyweights of any sort, ran for
Former Republican Sen. Dan the Senate but did not seek re- than 18,000 miles over the past election. Of the rest, he can the Ted Kennedy's seat in
Coats' campaign said Tuesday it election in 1998, avoiding a several months laying a spend $2,000 in the primary and Massachusetts.
has more than enough petition contest against the popular Mr. foundation for his campaign. He again on the general election for ——
s i g n a t u r e s t o p u t h i m o n Bayh. He said in an interview predicted that Republicans would individual federal candidates. AP Political Writer Liz Sidoti
Indiana's May primary ballot for last week that as a former senator not be fractured after the May 4 He can transfer as much as he contributed to this report.
what is now expected to be one he was in the best position primary. wants to the Democratic © Copyright 2010 The
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signatures in the 7th District. The Of the other four seeking the weeks been regarded as a near
Marion County voter registration Republican nomination, former certainty for re-election, having
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Interview with a Nigerian Email The Mount Vernon

Scammer Statement
(Little Green Footballs) understand how the gangs work. guestbooks, forums and websites (Little Green Footballs) document seems to be trying to
Submitted at 2/16/2010 3:22:15 PM At the bottom are the “foot and harvest the email addresses. Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:33:31 AM refrain from stating outright the
soldiers”, kids who spend all of Some gangs have software that more radical agendas of the
Anyone with an email account their time online to find email collects these emails Today’s manifesto for the new religious faction, represented in
connected to the Internet has addresses and send out the first automatically, so it cuts down on conservatism: The Mount the signers by Tony Perkins of
received them — seemingly emails to get people interested. the work. Vernon Statement, signed by a the Family Research Council.
endless variations on weirdly When they receive a reply, the Scam-Detective: What who’s who of right and far right (And it contains a very obvious
phrased emails pretending to be victim is passed up the chain, to percentage of emails would get a figures. typo, by the way.)
f r o m s e m i - f a m o u s p e o p l e , someone who has better English response? Including Richard Viguerie. However, two days later
offering millions of dollars if to get copies of ID from them John: Maybe 9 or 10 out of Right Wing Watch points out Viguerie is singing a different
you’ll help do something that like copies of their passport and every thousand emails. Then that just a couple of days ago, tune:
seems slightly shady. They often driving licenses and build up maybe 1 out of every 20 replies Viguerie told the Washington Among those in attendance will
originate in Nigeria, and they’re trust. Then when they are ready would lead to us getting money Times: be Richard Viguerie, the
a plague upon the web. And they to ask for money, they are passed out of the victim in the end. “This is embarrassing,” activist chairman of Conservative
actually do trick some people further up again to someone who Scam-Detective: And how much and longtime direct-mail HQ.com, who believes the
into giving away their money. will pretend to be a barrister or money would you expect to get advertiser Richard Viguerie told conservative movement “got
Want to know how a Nigerian shipping agent who will tell the from a victim? The Washington Times. “If the seriously off track during the big
email scammer thinks? victim that they need to pay John: On average, about $7,500 people in the leadership of the government days of George
Scam-Detective: What kind of charges or even a bribe to get the (£4,600) but the most I know conservative movement are Bush, Karl Rove and Tom
scams were you involved with? big cash amount out of the about was $25,000 (£15,400). going to put out pablum like this, DeLay.” This document,
John: Mainly advance fee fraud country. When they pay up, the This would be taken in smaller the tea party people are going to Viguerie says, is designed to
where we would tell people that gang master will collect the amounts, starting with a couple make them seem irrelevant. And unite conservatives.
someone has died and left money from the Western Union of hundred, then there would be the tea party people are going to “This is an attempt to draft a
millions in a bank or safety office, using fake ID that they more “problems” with the march to the forefront.” document that conservatives —
deposit box and that we needed have taken from other scam transaction, which would mean In a dig at current and former whether they’re Tea Party
help to get it out of the country. victims. that we needed more money to Republican congressional leaders conservatives or social or
That is the most successful type Scam-Detective: But where do release the big payout. People whom many blame for betraying economic or foreign policy
of scam, but I also did Phishing the “foot soldiers” find the email would keep paying more because conservative principles of limited conservatives — can get behind
to try and get user names and addresses? they were very small amounts government and reduced and begin the process of
passwords for peoples online John: Lots of people sign compared to the big payout that spending, Mr. Viguerie added, reclaiming the Republican Party
bank accounts. guestbooks online and leave their they believed they would get in “This is almost as if the for small-government
Scam-Detective: How did you email addresses all over the the end. movements leaders were taken conservatives,” Viguerie
find victims for your scams? internet on forums and websites. over by Tom DeLay and John explains.
John: First you need to We would just visit the Boehner.” I do like the Edwardian Script
That’s pretty accurate; the font they used for the signatures,
statement is bland stuff, a though. Gives it that authentic
watered down version of the 1776 feeling.
usual “culture war” dogma. The
only noteworthy part is that the
44 Politics/ Entertainment/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Coming Soon: More Nuclear Power Kim Kardashian Puts

Plants Her Memories in a
(Little Green Footballs)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 7:35:07 PM
nuclear power plants.
The White House is making no
bones about the fact that they see
halfway.”
The official said that pro-nuke
Republicans now need to return
Bottle
(ETonline - Breaking News) childhood memories to family
President Obama throws down this announcement as advancing the favor.
the nuclear power gauntlet. two agenda items: clean energy “Republicans who advocate for Submitted at 2/17/2010 6:43:00 AM vacations; all the favorite smells
On Tuesday, President Obama and efforts at bipartisanship. nuclear power have to recognize that reminded me of all the
will announce plans to break “In the State of the Union and at that we will not achieve a big Kim Kardashian's fragrance is happy times of my life. I wanted
ground on two new nuclear t h e H o u s e R e p u b l i c a n boost in nuclear capacity unless finally here for everyone to to put it in a bottle."
reactors at a Southern Company Conference retreat, the President we also create a system of smell! The "Keeping Up with the
plant in Burke, Georgia — the made clear that he is willing to incentives to make clean energy The reality TV star will be Kardashians" star will return to
first new U.S. nuclear reactors work with Republicans towards a profitable,” the official said. “As selling her new fragrance on QVC on March 13 to promote
since the incident at Three Mile comprehensive solution to our long as producing carbon QVC on Monday, February 22 at her fitness DVD series, "Fit in
Island in 1979. energy challenges,” a White pollution carries no costs, plants 7 p.m. ET. She spoke about the Your Jeans By Friday." She will
The president will make the H o u s e o f f i c i a l s a i d . “ B y that burn fossil fuel will be more inspiration for her perfume: "I appear at 10:30 a.m. ET and 7:30
announcement at the IBEW announcing plans today to break cost effective than nuclear was extremely involved in this p.m. ET.
Local Headquarters in Lanham, ground on the first new nuclear plants.” process of creating this
Md., where union members can reactors in nearly three decades, fragrance. I took everything from
learn applications that can be the President is making good on
used in the construction of his offer to meet Republicans
Fashion Week Fall
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corrupt’ members of Congress. A majority of those listed are Richard Pombo (R-CA), Pete
John McCain’s Republican “Beyond DeLay: The 20 Most Republicans, several of whom Sessions (R-TX), John Sweeney Sophisticated elegance filled the
opponent for his Arizona Senate Corrupt Members of Congress have been linked to the spreading (R-NY), and Curt Weldon (R- tents at Bryant Park yesterday as
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host J. D. Hayworth, has a new second annual report from the Cunningham scandals. As well C a n n o n ( R - U T ) a n d J . D . ready-to-wear collection.
twist on the Birther theme — he non-profit legal watchdog group as those cited as being under Hayworth (R-AZ) are among the All Photos: Kelly Stuart
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President Obama’s citizenship Ethics in Washington (CREW). includes such high-profile names 2010 Fashion Week coverage
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identity theft.[Video] DeLay, offers both summary and PA) and Representatives Roy
In 2006, J. D. Hayworth made it detailed versions of CREW’s Blunt (R-MO), John Doolittle (R
E-reader News Edition
Does where you live affect your happiness?
by rss@consumerreports.org
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:04:59 AM
Does where you live affect your
happiness?
If you’ve been in a funk and
can’t quite put your finger on
what’s causing it, where you live
could be to blame. This week
researchers at Gallup released
their comprehensive survey* of
the happiest and unhappiest
states and cities for 2009. The
annual survey ranks Americans’
overall quality of life and
measures how we’re faring
physically, emotionally, socially,
and professionally. Residents of
Hawaii, Utah, Montana, and
Minnesota reported the highest
well-being of any other state,
followed by Iowa, Vermont,
Colorado, Alaska, North Dakota,
and Kansas. On the other end of
the spectrum, Nevada, Ohio,
Arkansas, Kentucky, and West
Virginia ranked lowest on the
well-being scale. If you’re lucky
enough to live in one of the
happy states, you might also
boast that you’re healthier
because of it. Researchers are
finding that strategies that
improve mental health may also
boost physical health by, for
example, shielding the heart
from stress and boosting
immunity. Dozens of studies
have correlated a positive mental
outlook with various health
outcomes. On the flip side,
people who are depressed,
stressed, angry, or distressed
tend to fare poorer. For example,
in a landmark study released in
2000, scientists at the Mayo
Clinic analyzed the records of
839 patients who had been given
psychological tests 30 years
earlier. Those who scored
highest on a scale of pessimism
were roughly 20 percent more
likely to die prematurely than
were optimists.
Where does your state or city
fall in the happiness scale? Do
you agree with the ranking? I
was a bit disappointed to see
New York (No. 33) appear so
low on the list. But since, like
many, I have no plans to relocate
in the name of happiness, I have
to make the best of it. Here are
some suggestions from our
Consumer Reports on Health
newsletter on how to cultivate
positive feelings and live a
healthier, happier life: Count the
positive. People who literally
counted their blessings had a
greater sense of well-being in
several studies conducted by
researchers at the University of
Miami and the University of
California, Davis.
Consumer Reports/ TV/ 45
says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Ph.D., a psychology professor at
Claremont Graduate University
in California. So identify what
you love doing, or want to try,
then do it. Move. Exercise helps
give you a sense of control and
can ease depression as
Madonna is
effectively as medication.
Be thankful. People experienced Laugh. That may reduce stress,
Weeping In the
a better mood for up to a month help maintain a healthy immune New 'Glee' Promo
after they wrote a letter of system, and improve arterial
by Kona Gallagher (TV
gratitude to someone who had blood flow. On a more serious Squad)
been kind to them. Make friends. note, if you feel sad most of the
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We still have a month and a half
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of'Glee,' but FOX is giving us a
studies. seek help promptly through your little hint of what to expect in
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Salami recall expanded as Daily babies & kids

investigators seek source of deals
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salmonella (Consumer Reports)
Toys
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E-reader News Edition Consumer Reports/ Entertainment/ 47

When TV sound is disappointing, Listen Here: The

home-theater systems can help Charlie Sheen Stolen
by Nicholas Kolman-Mandle
(Consumer Reports)
If a dynamic listening
experience is as important to you
as a crisp, clear TV picture, a
more palatable: One of the
models we recommend includes
a DVD player and sells for just
Car 911 Call
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:21:55 AM
(ETonline - Breaking News) crash that he arrived home the
home-theater system can help. $160.
W h e n T V s o u n d i s Home-theater systems (also For more on HTIB, be sure to Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:19:00 AM prior evening at around 8 p.m.
disappointing, home-theater known as HTIB, for home- read our free home-theater after working on this hit CBS
systems can help theater-in-a-box) usually buying guide. Full Ratings of ET has the latest... sitcom "Two and a Half Men"
For self-professed audiophiles, combine a receiver with several home theaters(including our --- and he went to bed at
the increasing thinness of flat- matched speakers. While those recommended models) are Listen here for the 911 call approximately 10:30 p.m. He
panel TVs could be cause for who place a premium on depth available to subscribers. made after Charlie Sheen's car was awakened at 3:45 a.m. by a
concern. Quality speakers just and purity of sound might spring —Nick K. Mandle Subscribe was found at the bottom of phone call from TELEAID
can't fit into an inch-thick TV for components or pricier HTIB now! Mullholland Drive in Los informing him his car was in an
chassis, and the flat, tinny sound systems (and they can get very S u b s c r i b e t o Angeles on February 5. accident.
produced by a simpler speaker pricey), our tests have found a ConsumerReports.org for expert Sheen told ET on the day of the
system doesn't do justice to the number of very capable HITBs Ratings, buying advice and Teabugger Tape
complex surround sound found that cost $350 or less. Consider reliability on hundreds of Dishonestly Edited,
on DVD and Blu-ray movies. the fact that some even bundle a products. Update your feed
We test TVs for their sound DVD or Blu-ray player into the preferences
Professional
quality, and very few rate better system, and the price becomes Propagandist Misleads
than "Good," our middling score. [Shockers]
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Video preview: New bathroom scales can track Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:45:53 PM

your progress Did you know that when

investigative journalist/huge
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Shopping Blog (Consumer that can track as well as measure consistency it’s also important to Essential information: Our free James O'Keefe illegally
Reports) your progress. weigh yourself at the same time, buyers’ guides to bathroom videotaped himself fucking with
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:42:46 AM “Based on what that number is first thing in the morning. That’s scales and treadmills and ACORN employees, he was not
on the scale, I can determine because your weight can elliptical trainers include full actually dressed as a cartoon
Video preview: New bathroom what I’m going to be later on that fluctuate throughout the day, ratings that are available to pimp, but actually "in slacks and
scales can track your progress week as far as exercising and depending on what you’ve had to subscribers. Subscribe now! a button-down shirt"? You
With spring just around the eating,” personal trainer Allen eat.) S u b s c r i b e t o probably didn't know that,
corner, it’s a good time to weigh Aranzamendez states in the Speaking of consistency, our ConsumerReports.org for expert because not a single media outlet
the effectiveness of any New video. Some of the 11 scales we testing reveals some scales that Ratings, buying advice and that reported on the tapes ever
Year’s resolution you may have tested can stiffen your resolve by were as much as 7 to 11 pounds reliability on hundreds of saw the unedited versions, and
made to lose weight. The video remembering and displaying off the mark. View the video to products. Update your feed O'Keefe's employer Andrew
at right details some low-cost, your last five weigh-ins; one learn more about our findings preferences Breitbart lied about them,
accurate (and in one case, even model can remember the latest and learn which bathroom scale repeatedly!
48 Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Facebook and Twitter: SalesForce.com Offers Social, Real

Time Enterprise Tools
by Mike Kirkwood features embedded in your We still have a few questions example how it works to bridge
(ReadWriteWeb) screen with Chatter, including about how easy this be for users Facebook and Twitter, and what
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:00:00 AM
the "What are you working on" to use the following mechanics it means for a Chatter user to
box, which mimics the correctly. "follow" a Twitter person (does
Today, Saleforce takes the experience of posting status on Will there be social blunders in the Twitter person know that
wraps off Chatter pilot program. Facebook or Twitter. the enterprise, where your they are considered a lead). So,
After several months of testing Similar to Twitter, Chatter users favorite team member doesn't to dig in a bit deeper we asked a
with select customers, it is going can team can add a hashtag to advanced permissions for follow you back? Will few of the SalesForce customers
into production for this group. their post and create a new topic supporting projects. In addition,employees "game" the system their experience in setting up the
We reviewed Chatter with to share in the enterprise, a person can follow a document, and follow everyone? These tools during the first phase of
SalesForce's VP of Corporate inviting others to join them in or a record in a database. For questions and more are some of testing, whether they are seeing
Strategy, Bruce Francis and SVP dialog use the same hash. For example, a person may want to the things we look forward to any surprises. Here's what we
P r o d u c t M a r k e t i n g , K r a i g those of you not familiar with the be apprised of all changes in a learning more about from heard so far:
Swensrud to find out what all the #hash, it is used to create a 'topic' sales forecast document and have customers as they proceed in Our question: What are your
excitement was about. that is known by individuals to those changes piped to them in their production roll out of thoughts on how you promote
Chatter has the goal of bringing increase the ability to search their feed. This feature follows Chatter. "proper" following in your
the best of the social media tools posts about the same topic. the "like facebook" mantra that We asked the SalesForce team enterprise. Have you seen users
t o t h e e n t e r p r i s e , m a k i n g Learn more about the hash on we've heard from the SalesForce about these questions. Kraig do things that you wouldn't
enterprise sales as easy to use as Wikipedia. product team, instead of the userSwensrud, SVP Product expect? Any social challenges
Facebook or Twitter. With all of We had questions about these going to the document, the Marketing shared his perspective or surprises?
the buzz around privacy and features and whether the #hash updates are coming to them. on the design goal is for James Sheppard, from Vetrazzo
social networking tools, it's would be robust enough to Dominic Shine, from Reed followers in Chatter: responded:
refreshing to hear that these tools support enterprise sharing. In Exhibitions gave us some insight • It is designed to be less about "Some gravitate to heavier use
use a the same security models Twitter today, we see groups into why his company is a first- popularity contest and more than others, as would be
that the rest of SalesForce has overwriting each other and mover in the pilot about the people who you need expected. I'm very pleased that
built in to its platform. having "hash overload". Will program."Many of our across company many employees have stopped
Sponsor this happen in the enterprise? employees use Facebook and/or • The followers will represent communicating the old fashioned
Adding Collaboration to the From our investigation, it seems LinkedIn or Twitter so are fairlythe social graph of connections way of "Broad CC" email and
SalesForce architecture that SalesForce has this figured familiar with the concept but in a company instead are turning to Chatter to
Chatter is a new module in the out, and is adding more features we've never managed to get • Will see custom "groups" of both ask questions and share
SalesForce architecture that takes in this area. We're not sure how these to work internally properly.
followers as a pattern around ideas and resources. It's too soon
advantage of the existing APIs yet these dynamic groupings will We are very enthusiastic about projects, sales leads, and to call them "social patterns"
and services, while providing work alongside more static the concept of having that sort of
business processes. perhaps, but I see real potential
rich collaboration features. topics that may exist. This seems functionality integrated with our• Trending topics. What are to have topic oriented
"Collaboration as a Service" is to be an area of opportunity for sales and marketing processes most followed documents, conversations in a way that's far
now trending as a new category companies to build their own and also as a more general records, bringing the most more intuitive and useful than
in the industry. patterns. purpose tool that will allow valuable enterprise assets up to email."
Adds Dialog to Existing Sales Follow People, Documents, and general social networking but the top Dominic Shine, added:
Flow Applications also the ability to "follow" what "There's some natural
If you're used to using Chatter supports setting up is happening in processes or on We have additional questions
SalesForce today, you'll see new follower lists and teams and platforms." FACEBOOK page 51
that aren't yet answered. For
E-reader News Edition Tech News/ 49

Basic Etiquette for Email Lists and Forums [Netiquette]

by Angus Kidman (Lifehacker) revisit them. Unless the group
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:30:00 AM you're joining is brand new,
chances are that contentious
Email lists and forums are a topics have already been mulled
great way to connect with people over many times, and the
with similar interests, but they chances of your having a fresh
can seem scary to new perspective are low.
participants—saying the wrong Avoid "me-too" posts. It's
thing can bring torrents of abuse wonderful that you agree, but it's
raining down. Here's the basics rare that pointing this out adds
you should remember. much to the discussion. New
Ed. note: This post is from information is always welcome;
Lifehacker Australia's excellent an echo chamber is often less
Lifehacker 101 series and written pleasant.
by Lifehacker AU's editor, Quote relevant text only in
Angus Kidman. You can go replies. By default, your mail
straight to our friend-from-down client will probably include all
-under's post here. the previous material in an email
(Photo by kevinsteele) discussion. This is rarely helpful.
Fundamentally, getting along Delete irrelevant material and
with people on a mailing list focus on what you want to
(whether the topic is Google comment on. This makes for
Wave development, Spandau approach makes it more likely to find them and read them. maintain online archives you can easier reading and takes up less
Ballet, or windsurfing) is a that you'll have a productive Asking for bootlegs on a mailing read. If the mailing list you've space.
matter of common sense. Being experience rather than a painful list that bars that behaviour will joined doesn't have archives, Take care with "out-of-office"
pleasant, thinking before you one. get you ridiculed or banned. It's then wait until you've been replies. If you've set up an
post and having an idea of what Some of the rules outlined here r a r e f o r m a i l i n g l i s t s t o subscribed for a week or more automated message to respond to
the prevailing community norms are more specific to mailing lists encourage file attachments, and before posting, and read what email while you're on holidays, it
are will get you a long way. than to forums, but the basic using them can be a major comes in while you wait. can bombard everyone else on
Nonetheless, to judge by the principles are useful for any form headache. Also be sure to take note of the the list whenever a new message
flame wars that regularly pop on o f g r o u p d i s c u s s i o n . Whether there's explicitly posted process for unsubscribing to a a p p e a r s . T e m p o r a r i l y
Facebook groups and in email (Acknowledgements to Cat rules or not, take time to read list. (Lists I'm on still regularly unsubscribing may be a wiser
inboxes across the globe, those Allman and Leslie Hawthorn of through any archives of older get ‘unsubscribe' members sent move.
p r i n c i p l e s a r e n ' t a l w a y s Google, whose presentation on discussions, to get a sense of the to the entire list, even though the Not everybody will agree on
f o l l o w e d . S o h e r e ' s s o m e getting started in open source prevailing approach. Some lists p r o c e s s f o r u n s u b s c r i b i n g everything. Some lists foster a
suggestions to remember when communities at Linux.conf.au encourage verbosity; others involves a different address culture of debate; others place a
you're participating in a new 2010 sparked off this train of prefer terser discussions. Forums which is easily located.) much higher emphasis on people
mailing list or forum. I'm the thought.) can be very picky about making Don't rehash old issues. A getting along. But regardless of
first to acknowledge that some Learn the rules and read the s u r e a p o s t i s c o r r e c t l y particular advantage of reading the prevailing culture, it's healthy
list members take perverse a r c h i v e s . M a n y f o r u m s o r c a t e g o r i s e d . group rules and older posts is to recognise that differing views
p l e a s u r e i n a t t a c k i n g n e w mailing lists will have an With forums, this process that you'll learn which subjects can't always be reconciled.
participants, and some of those e x p l i c i t l y s t a t e d s e t o f generally just means looking at h a v e b e e n s o t h o r o u g h l y
people can't easily be mollified, community rules; take the time earlier posts; many mailing lists discussed that no-one wants to BASIC page 50
but going in with the right
50 Tech News/ Economy/ E-reader News Edition
BASIC
PleaseRobMe and the Dangers of Location-Based continued from page 49

Often, you have to accept that

Social Networks someone else thinks differently
and move on. If a list is
by Frederic Lardinois PleaseRobMe doesn't show services allowed users to select constantly leaving you irritable
(ReadWriteWeb) anything new that a regular the level of granularity of their because of these kinds of issues,
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:17:14 AM
Twitter search for the 4sq.com check-ins. While this won't the message is clear: take a
domain wouldn't uncover, but it's discourage burglars (and doesn't break.
Location-based social networks the first time that a service has location-based networks will be work for FourSquare-like apps), Lifehacker 101 is a weekly
l i k e F o u r s q u a r e , G o w a l l a , m a d e t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n s o limited if they can't find ways to being able to just point to feature covering fundamental
Brightkite and Google Buzz are blatantly obvious. We don't think make users feel safe when using "Houston, TX" as your location techniques that Lifehacker
currently among the fastest that a lot of thieves are actually these services. How to Stay instead of the actual hotel your constantly refers to, explaining
growing new mobile services. t r o l l i n g t h e I n t e r n e t f o r Safe? are staying in could alleviate the them step-by-step. Hey, we were
All of these apps have one thing information when people leave If you really feel the need to fears of a lot of users. The all newbies once, right? Basic
in common: they encourage you their homes, though we have share your location with the Dangers of Mixing the Virtual Netiquette For Email Lists And
to share your current location already seen some burglaries whole world, then you have to and the Real World Forums[Lifehacker AU]
with the rest of the world. By where status updates may have accept the risks. This isn't just PleaseRobMe points out the
doing this, though, you are also played a role. l i m i t e d t o l o c a t i o n - a w a r e dangers of location-based social
telling people where you are not: Besides robberies, there are also applications, though. Posting n e t w o r k s . S e r v i c e s l i k e
a t h o m e . A n e w s i t e , other reasons why you might Twitter updates from your Foursquare, Brightkite and
PleaseRobMe, plays on this want to keep your Foursquare vacation also make it pretty Google Buzz bridge the gap
theme and displays real-time profile private. Do you, after all, obvious that you are not at home. between the virtual world of Stocks rally on
updates from Foursquare users really want to tell your future When it comes to location- social networks and the real
who broadcast their check-ins on employer that your spent all aware services and geo-social world, which is something we corporate
Twitter. those weeknights at the local networks, we prefer services that are not accustomed, to. It's easy
Sponsor bar? Privacy Concerns: The allow their users to send location to think that the information we earnings hopes
A c c o r d i n g t o t h e t r i o o f Limiting Factor for Location- updates privately to a select share online doesn't have any (Financial Times - US
developers behind the site (Barry Based Networks? group of friends and trusted influence on the real world, but homepage)
Borsboom, Frank Groeneveld More importantly, though, this contacts. BrightKite- one of the PleaseRobMe makes it pretty
and Boy van Amstel), "the goal service highlights the privacy older geo-social networks - for clear that there can be real-world Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:49:36 AM
of this website is to raise some i m p l i c a t i o n s o f r e g u l a r l y example, allows you to set very consequences to sharing your Message from fivefilters.org: If
awareness of this issue and have broadcasting your location. granular privacy controls on a location. What Do You Do? you can, please donate to the full
people think about how they use Some people are willing to take per-post level. Of course, you What is your policy for staying -text RSS service so we can
s e r v i c e s l i k e F o u r s q u a r e , the risk and are perfectly fine could always resort to using a safe on location-aware social continue developing it.
Brightkite, Google Buzz etc." with broadcasting their location completely anonymous service networks? Do you avoid them at By Jamie Chisholm, Global
There are also ads on the site, so and services like Foursquare like BlockChalk or a permission- all cost? Do you think that the Markets Commentator
the developers clearly also had reward these check-ins with based one-on-one service like positive aspects outweigh the Published: February 17 2010
something else in mind when virtual badges and real-world EchoEcho, but with these, you potential risks? Do you use a 08:24 | Last updated: February
they started this site. No matter discounts for their most active can't update your friends about pseudonym and a fake avatar? 17 2010 18:49
the developers' motivations, the users. For a lot of people, what bar to meet them at either Let us know in the comments. Five Filters featured article:
v i s c e r a l r e a c t i o n t o however, sharing location data and the social aspects of these Discuss Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
P l e a s e R o b e M e o n T w i t t e r , takes online transparency one services are limited. PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
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FACEBOOK
Google Declares "Living Stories" continued from page 48

interpretation about who to making up and down the

Experiment Success, Offers as Open follow at first. But people have
talked for years about how work
really gets done through informal
hierarchy - Chatter can
democratize that communication
flow."
Source networks. The surprising thing
about Chatter is that it's a simple
All in all, this seems like a great
move by SalesForce. It is going
by Mike Melanson customized to the user, keeping way to for people to interact to likely take some tweaking to
(ReadWriteWeb) track of what they have already through those informal networks get it perfect, but it seems on
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:42:52 AM
seen so that it can alert them without chasing people. If track to be a hit for SalesForce
when new content is available. someone is great at vendor customers. Customers that we
It's been just over two months When we first saw the news negotiations, I follow that spoke to have been giving
since Google, the New York delivery system two months ago, person. If someone is a superstar feedback on features that can be
Times and the Washington Post typing those words into Google we said that we could "imagine account rep, I follow that person. enhanced to meet their needs.
joined together to experiment or even Google News or any other publications employing I can start to pick up and And, to the credit of the
with a new way to provide news number of other search engines t h i s k i n d o f s y s t e m o f replicate their success through SalesForce team, they are taking
with Google's Living Stories. is often more a waste of time organization" and now we're that collaboration. And, with the time to get feedback and get
Today, Google has declared the than anything else. glad to see that this will become Chatter, everyone can tailor it it right.
experiment a success and has Google's Living Stories allows a reality. Something to note, and its use for their own needs. I The enterprise is becoming more
said that it will offer the project's media to provide news in a way however, is that this is not an think we're starting to see, and social. Maybe soon you'll be able
functionality to the general that lets readers fully explore a algorithm-based service provided will see more of, Chatter helping to tweet your way to a nice
public. story from a central location. by Google - the content of a
to "flatten" the organisation so bonus, thanks to Salesforce and
Sponsor They don't have to scroll down Living Story is completely
that people at all levels of the cloud computing.
According to Google, 75% of through a page of search results determined by an editorial team. organisation can collaborate Is your enterprise ready for
p e o p l e w h o s e n t f e e d b a c k or unrelated articles. Instead, a In a way, it's just another content around an issue, sale, product etc social sharing and the power of
regarding the Living Stories single page break a story down management system, but one that whereas the communication on Chatter? Discuss
project have said that they into four main components: a is tailored to telling a single story these items can be hierarchical in
p r e f e r r e d t h e f o r m a t t o general summary at the top, a list and, from what we've seen, organisations and there is
traditional online news. But of filters along the left side, a telling it well and from a number frustration sometimes about slow
m a y b e t h a t ' s t h e t h i n g - time-line of important events of angles. communication or decision
"traditional" online news is just along the right side and a stream Disclosure: ReadWriteWeb is a
the knee jerk reaction of a of updates and articles in the s y n d i c a t i o n p a r t e r o f t h e
previously print-based industry center. Living Stories is like a N Y T i m e s .
t r y i n g t o j u m p o n t h e personalized RSS feed reader, Discuss
bandwagon. Trying to keep up but customized to pay attention
with the health care debate by to just that one story. The story is

Jay Bruce, Howie Kendrick and Three Other Guys to Win Your League
by R.J. White (FanHouse Draft Kit Many fantasy baseball players that have a smaller risk Having an early pick go down
Main) enthusiasts know that you can't of failure than their compatriots. early in the season will cause
Submitted at 2/17/2010 4:00:00 AM
win a league in the first few One reason many owners choose many to lose their leagues.
rounds of a draft, but you can to avoid selecting pitchers early
Filed under: MLB New Studs, certainly lose it. With your early
that have a very high floor, in the draft is the inherit injury
MLB Sleepers, Fantasy Baseball picks, you want to find players risk hurlers bring to your team.
52 Tech News/ Gadgets/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

The New AOL: Local Reporters The PocketBook 360

Covering Your Neighborhood eReader gets a review
by Mike Melanson wouldn't make an otherwise by Tablet the PocketBook 360 from the
(ReadWriteWeb) potentially daunting task a bit (BestTabletReview.com) reviewer’s Mac. Instead of
Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:23:00 AM
easier. Actually, the SXSW Submitted at 2/17/2010 7:46:09 AM
dragging the icon to trash and
coverage seems like a good disconnect, it would continually
AOL is continuing with its push producing and delivering high testing ground for doing the Message from fivefilters.org: If pop back up forcing the reviewer
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The story says that AOL is v i d e o s , d i s c u s s i o n s a n d As Paid Content wrote last The PocketBook 360 went on controls. The selector
looking to "expand Patch, its i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t l o c a l month, Saul Hansell left the New sale in November but we’ve only automatically goes to the end of
network of local news blogs, b u s i n e s s e s . I t i s r u n b y Y o r k T i m e s ' B i t s B l o g i n now just come across our first the list when using a content
from 30 sites to 'hundreds', by "professional editors, writers, December to join Seed, with the review of the eReader. Thanks to menu which could be rather
the end of 2010." photographers and videographers purpose of "leveraging Seed the Lewis Four, who posted a frustrating if looking a list of a
AOL recently announced a w h o l i v e i n o r n e a r t h e across all of AOL's platforms". very detailed review, we now hundred eBooks or images.
similar 0-to-60 sort of initiative communities [they] serve". As Looking at the site, it would know a little more about this mid Finally, the reviewer had to
with its attempt to cover every such, Patch seems like a perfect seem that the only issue in -$200 eBook reader. download the English dictionary
single band at this year's South candidate for the type of service growing from 30 to hundreds Let’s start with a brief summary as it wasn’t preinstalled.
By Southwest festival with its offered by another arm of AOL, would be general scalability, as of the pros. The PocketBook 360 Overall, The Lewis Four had
content distribution project Seed. crowdsourced content provider each location is identical, but seems to be quite the speedy good things to say about the
Sponsor Seed. with different content. With an page turner as shown in the PocketBook 360 eReader.
The article quotes an internal While the article declares the army of content providers at video above. It outperformed the They’d like to see it come down
communication, saying that AOL intention to go from 30 sites to your fingertips, it would seem Nook and Kindle 2 by pretty to a sub-$200 price (who
is looking "to be leaders in one hundreds "quite the ambitious that the expansion is the obvious healthy margins during page turn wouldn’t?), but like it for its
of the most promising 'white goal," we wonder if having a next step more than anything tests. It boots in a little over 10 small size and speed. We
spaces' on the Internet" as well system like Seed already in place else. Discuss seconds and loads most eBooks encourage you to read the full
as "in sourcing, creating, in 4-5 seconds. It supports review here.
Adobe Digital Editions, has a Source: The Lewis Four via
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clear Vizplex display. Finally, it
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Samsung Makes A Big Play for the
Mobile Enterprise
by Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:16:18 AM
Samsung is taking aggressive
steps to reach deep into the
enterprise with plans for a suite
of mobile collaboration
applications and partnerships
with the likes of Cisco,
Microsoft, Oracle and a host of
others.
The collaborative tools
including enterprise email,
instant messaging security,
mobile device management,
unified communications,
customer relationship
management, salesforce
automation and business
intelligence.
Samsung is working with its
channel partners to provide the
applications. It's another form of
bundling, really, providing
options for what products an
enterprise customer may want to
Krugman: What Have Learned From the
Crisis (if anything)?
by Barry Ritholtz (The Big
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as it makes deals with mobile
carriers. The company will also
support Android on some of the
devices. Additionally, Samsung
will offer offer enterprise
applications on the LiMo
platform and its own Bada
mobile operating system.
Sanyo's ICR-PS605RM Xacti
The mobile market seem to be
getting religion. Application
stereo recorder features six
environments are emerging. The
Alcatel-Lucent news is a case in
mics... for recording lots of stuff
by Joseph L. Flatley sound better than ever (or, if
include on devices for its point. Carriers puffed their chests (Engadget)
at the World Mobile Congress by you'd rather record MP3s, they
employees.
offering their own platform they have that covered as well). Also
Sponsor Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:01:00 PM
on tap is 4GB internal memory
P a r t n e r s i n c l u d e C i s c o , call the"Wholesale Applications
Sure, you can have your little and a micro SDHC port. No
Formotus, Microsoft, Spring Community," intended to be a
voice recorders if you like, but word on a price, but you can
Wireless, Sybase and Wipro. write-once, read anywhere
when you're ready to seriously look forward to seeing this one
Oracle, SAP and IBM are environment.
up your game you have to talk to make its debut in Japan come
expected to be added later this It's striking how long it has take
Sanyo. Indeed, the kids from April. Get a closer look at the
year. The approach allows the mobile industry to catch up.
Osaka have really gone and done break.
people, for instance to use Samsung seems to be taking a bit
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Ciscco's WebEx for mobile more of a modern approach with
PS605RM Xacti stereo recorder. PS605RM Xacti stereo recorder
its partnerships. Regardless, it's
conferencing.
This bad boy features six features six mics... for recording
According to v3.co.uk, Samsung clear that 2010 is the year of the
m i c r o p h o n e s i n a W - X Y lots of stuff
will release the devices this year mobile enterprise. Discuss
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FillerItemFinder Helps You Secure Free Amazon Dogs allowed

Shipping [Amazon]
by Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:00:00 AM
We've all been here: you pick
out a few items from
Amazon.com, you're about finish
your order, and Amazon informs
you that you're a mere $3.72
away from free shipping.
FillerItemFinder finds a cheap
item you actually want to meet
the cutoff.
Whenever you spend $25 or
more at Amazon.com you
become elegible for free basic
shipping. Why pay for
shipping—usually around $5-10
depending on the size and weight
of your order—when you could
spend that shipping cost on an
actual product and end up with
free shipping?
At FillerItemFinder you enter
the amount you need to get to
$25. FillerItemFinder gives you
a massive list of all the items that
"Entertainment"—the ability to
filter by category is what sets
this service apart from a filter-
less but similar service we
reviewed four years ago. Once
you've found the perfect
filler—Richard Simmons
Groovin' with the Silver Foxes,
anyone?—add the found item to
your cart and you've scored
yourself free shipping.
Have a great trick or tool for
finding shipping deals online or
fit the criteria ordered by rising g e t t i n g m o r e o u t o f
price.You can filter the results by Amazon.com? Let's hear about it
category and subcategory, i n the comments.
narrowing your search to include F i l l e r I t e m F I n d e r [ v i a
only "Entertainment" and M a k e U s e O f ]
"Technology" or only the
"Books" and "DVD" section of
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When Do You Pick Up the Phone Rather than Send Another

Email? [Ask The Readers]
by Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:30:00 AM
Email has become the default
form of communication for many
of us—as evidenced by our
overflowing inboxes and our best
attempts to wrangle them—but
actual voice communication still
has it's place. So we're
wondering:
When do you pick up the phone
rather than sending another
email?
Photo by Atilla1000 (come back
soon!).
We do almost everything over
email and chat around
Lifehacker HQ, and text
communication has plenty of
benefits, to be sure. You can
always go over an email or chat
transcript to verify what you
discussed, what decisions were
made, and so on. That's not
really the case for phone
conversations unless you record
all your phone calls, and even
then they're not easily
searchable.
On the other hand, phone calls
can be quick, easy, and more
effortless, especially if you just
need a quick answer to a hard-to-
articulate-in-text question that
would require a lot of typing. So
we want to hear when you email,
when you pick up the phone to
call, when you switch over to
instant messenger, or when and
why you choose whatever form
of communication when you
want to reach out and touch
someone. Let's hear your
thoughts in the comments.
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Packlate Finds Deep Discounts on Last Minute

Vacations [Travel]
by Jason Fitzpatrick
(Lifehacker)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:30:00 AM
If you've decided at the last
minute that you want to take a
vacation but you're concerned
you won't score a good deal so
close to your departure, check
out Packlate—a site dedicated to
last minute accommodation
deals.
Packlate taps into a network of
accomondation providers who
would rather rent you a
vacational rental at the last
minute for half price than to
leave the property empty and
you're finding lots of rentals
you're interested in, it's worth
signing up for a free Packlate
account—much like online-
retailers have agreements to not
show retail items at radically
lowered prices, Packlate has an
agreement to not show the
absolute lowest deals to non-
subscribers.
Have a favorite tool, trick, or
profitless. Currently the majority You search Packlate like a service for finding last minute
of properties listed in Packlate traditional hotel-booking site. vacation deals? Let's hear about
are centered around Colorado, Plug in your travel dates, the it in the comments. Packlate[via
Nevada, and Califoriana but they location you would like to stay TechCrunch]
are expanding into other rental i n , a n d P a c k l a t e r e t u r n s
markets. availabilities and discounts. If
Jacobellis Spins Out in
Snowboard Cross
Semifinals; Ricker Goes
on to Win
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 5:52:50 PM
Her second place finish in the
qualifying rounds was as good as
it got Tuesday for Lindsey
Jacobellis. Following a sharp run
in the quarterfinals — her third
race of the day — Jacobellis
spun out near the top of the hill

Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not in the semifinal race, after

landing off balance from a jump
and nearly colliding with
Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes [R/c] Canada’s Maelle Ricker, who
went on to win that heat and the
by Mark Wilson (Gizmodo) you. Make an upward toss are remarkably sensitive to next, making her the second
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:00:00 PM gesture, and up the UFO goes. ballistic attack). If you're lucky Canadian since Sunday — and
The more violent the motion, the enough to get three or more feet the second in history — to win
The Wave UFO appears to be higher it flies. Make a diagonal away from the UFO, don't move. gold at home.
the first g e s t u r e - toss gesture, and you can push it It might not see you, and the After briefly regaining her
controlled...err...R/C vehicle. toward a buddy, who can "catch slightest motion could trigger a b a l a n c e i n t h e s e m i f i n a l ,
DVICE explains how you steer it" over his hand and toss it back second onrush. Continue to stay Jacobellis spun out of bounds
its flight: (or not). calm for up to 1-2 hours as the and placed her head between her
Wave UFO Controlled By Sounds neat, but here's what I'd battery pack runs out. And h a n d s , k n o w i n g s h e w a s
Gestures, Not Convenient, Well- c a l l t h e r e a l - w o r l d u s a g e always remember those who d i s q u a l i f i e d .
Vetted Remotes...start the motor s c e n a r i o : gave their lives that day so that
and hold your hand underneath ...start the motor and hold your you could live.
as it begins to hover. As you hand underneath as it begins to the UFO spirals, possibly while Look for the Wave UFO for $25
move your hand laterally to the launch unpredictably into the air. flaming, at you or a loved one this spring. [ DVICE]
ground, the UFO moves with Quickly dodge out of the way as (protip: protect your eyes, they
56 Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Review and unboxing of the Genius G-Pen M712X graphics

tablet
by Tablet Power series model has an “x” need to start using your tablet
(BestTabletReview.com) model which means it has “dual included in the box. The driver
Submitted at 2/17/2010 5:15:27 AM
mode” that switches between itself is rather simple and easy to
widescreen 16:9 format and setup any of its 34 shortcut keys.
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you can, please donate to the full Genius G-Pen M712X Specs irked us. Once you load the
-text RSS service so we can The M712X has a 12 x 7.25 driver on a Mac it continually
continue developing it. inch active area in wide and 9.5 stays there. It’s possible there
Review of the Genius G-Pen x 7.25 inch active area in may be a way to remove it from
M712X graphics tablet standard mode. If features 4,000 your active programs list, but we
We’ve seen quite a few Genius LPI, has 1,024 levels of pressure haven’t found it. Day and night,
tablets floating around for a sensitivity, a 200 point per tablet plugged in or not, the
while now and we’ve always second refresh rate and an driver is still there, waiting in the
wondered how they compared to accuracy of +/- 0.3mm. On the shadows of the other
the giant Wacom-sized elephant tablet you’ll find two rolling applications, waiting to annoy
in the room. Thankfully Genius pads for scrolling, zooming, you when you close programs or
has allowed us to answer that volume control, brush size and go to shut down your computer.
question as they were kind selecting with center click. Sure it doesn’t hurt anything, but
enough to send us their G-Pen There’s also a series of menu aesthetically it’s a source of
M 7 1 2 X f o r r e v i e w . A f t e r buttons that toggle what the find the tablet taking up nearly CDs for both Windows and Mac frustration.
spending quite a bit of time using rolling pads control and the dual the entire space of the box. The OS, Photoshop Elements 6.0 and The pen tablet, however, is
it in all manner of ways we have mode selector (which switches tablet is wrapped in a packing Ulead PhotoImpact 12 SE. another story. It’s quick,
to wonder why this current batch between 16:9 and 4:3 active sheet and anchored with two The G-Pen M712X is very well responsive and very easy to use.
of Genius tablets isn’t getting area). Surrounding the active styrofoam pieces holding it in built and sturdy. It’s built with It’s constructed of sturdy, black
more notoriety. area is a whopping 34 hot keys place. glossy black plastic around the glossy plastic and lays perfectly
Genius has been building that you can link to any manner After lifting out the tablet you’ll drawing surface. The active area flat with no flexing or movement
graphics tablets for a few years of program and OS shortcuts. find the manual, installation and surface itself has a clear vellum when working. We were quite
now. They aim to provide The Unboxing program CDs in a clear plastic cover that can be lifted and used impressed with the build quality
affordable tablets in larger sizes To start, the Genius G-Pen ziplock bag and the cordless pen, to secure papers placed under it actually. The large size allows
to beginning digital artists and M712X comes in a very large battery, extra pen nibs and nib for tracing. you to really focus on an area of
hobbyists. Even their website, and well-built box. The outside remover in a plastic molded case. The Review work. The wheel and selector is
www.GeniusTablet.com, focuses is chalk full of information. The Here’s the entire contents of the We got off to a bad start with much more useful than we had
on tutorials on how to use back specifically has spec box. You have the wrapped the G-Pen M712X. The included anticipated and being able to set
graphics tablets better and information in 25 languages and M712X tablet, pen holder, software drivers weren’t up-to- it for zoom, scroll or brush size
artwork made by Genius tablet a nice details of the tablet and cordless pen, nibs, nib remover, date with our Mac OS X Snow saves a lot of time when working
users. Their new G-Pen Power cordless pen. battery, nib removal instructions Leopard and Windows 7 test on a project. The wheel clicks
s e r i e s ( M 6 0 9 a n d M 7 1 2 ) All in all it does a good job and manual bag with paper computers. While not a big deal slightly when you rotate it. Some
provides a large size tablet (an describing the abilities of the manual and CDs. — we simply went to the Genius have remarked that this makes it
active area of 12 x 7.25 inches in M712X in both text and visual Contents of the pen case. site and downloaded the most feel cheap, but we found it a nice
the M712x’s case) for a very icons. Four CD’s come with the G-Pen recent drivers — one usually
affordable price. Each G-Pen When you open the box you’ll M712X. You have installation expects to have everything you REVIEW page 57
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continued from page 56
supportive measure when using
the wheel. The other selectors
along the top of the tablet
include volume control and
widescreen/fullscreen selector.
Surrounding the active area of
the pad, which comes within 2-3
inches of the edge, are the 34
shortcut keys. While we don’t
use shortcut keys that often it’s
easy to see this as immensely
useful for those that are. You can
easily set up the keys with the
driver in a series of simple
dropdown menus. It supports
both hot key setup (by allowing
y o u t o c h e c k
option/shift/command and select
the keyboard key with it) or links
(which you can use to link to
programs and applications).
The surface of the active area is
protected with a translucent sheet
of plastic that can be lifted up at
the bottom to expose the
traditional graphic tablet surface.
At first it seems rather odd to
include, but after using it for a
while we’ve grown quite fond of
it. First, it keeps dust, grease and
hand oils off the tablet’s surface
and is easy to wipe off or clean.
Second, it’s quite useful for
tracing images into a graphic
Donte' Stallworth Signs With Ravens
by Pat McManamon
(FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 4:04:00 AM
Filed under: Browns, Ravens, the 2009 season, to a one-year
NFL Free Agency The Baltimore contract Wednesday. A league
R a v e n s b e l i e v e i n s e c o n d source said the contract is worth $ 9 0 0 , 0 0 0 - - w h i c h i n a n
program. We used it quite a few
times to trace a sketch from
sketchpads and then work on it
in Illustrator or Photoshop. There
was no lack of sensitivity or
inaccuracy of recording with a
sheet of paper sandwiched
between the active surface and
the plastic sheet. Being able to
trace the item without looking at
the screen is quite useful as well.
Trying to do the same thing with
other graphics tablets failed and
we finally had to tape the sheet
down to keep it stable. Not a
great situation. The plastic sheet
also makes for a smooth writing
surface. It’s firm and smooth as
opposed to the slightly more
rubber texture we’re accustomed
to.
Many of the complaints stated
about the Genius tablets revolve
around the pen. The pen is
certainly thicker than Wacom’s
as it holds an AAA battery in it.
The case is light plastic and cigar
shaped and doesn’t have any
eraser end, only a contact end
with exposed nib. It also has a
clear plastic rocker switch that
isn’t all that ergonomic. Maybe
it’s due to our large hands, but
we didn’t have much of a
chances, so they're giving Donte'
Stallworth a very large one.
The Ravens signed the wide
receiver, who was suspended for
problem with the pen. It certainly
is of a lesser quality than pens
that come with Wacom’s line of
tablets and the weight and
balance is a little off, but its size
is typical of most larger pens and
didn’t cause our hand to cramp
after hours of use (which the
Wacom pens sometimes do). The
lack of eraser function is sorely
missed however and if Genius
put a little thought into
redesigning their pens the
hardware for the G-Pen series
would be pretty great.
Conclusion
When all is said and done the
Genius G-Pen M712X has two
criticisms — its pen and
software. For us, the pen wasn’t
that much of an issue. Baring its
cheaper feel it didn’t have any
flaws per se, but we could see
where people wouldn’t like it.
The software should be an easy
fix in the future. Genius needs to
invest a bit in their driver
interface and fix some of the
program issues (especially those
mentioned above).
These criticisms wane when
compared to the actual
performance of the tablet. Truth
be told, we’ve become rather
dependent on the M712X. It
really is a great tablet. After
using it for months now —
mostly due to the nature of
reviews we’ve read on Genius’s
other tablets — we have never
encountered a random glitch,
dead area in the pad or any sort
of hardware hickup. We’ve tried
to reproduce many of the
problems listed and haven’t
succeeded after clocking over 80
hours with the tablet.
Whether or not this represents a
turn in quality for Genius is
something we can’t answer. All
we do know is the G-Pen
M712X far exceeded my
expectations. We’d recommend
it for the graphic artist who
wants an affordable large scale
tablet and can’t afford a Wacom
Intuos4 Medium or Large
graphics tablet.
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commissioner Roger Goodell for
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Tom Pecheux's
Backstage Beauty
Secret at Derek Lam
by ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 5:59:07 PM
Gorgeous blue-and-copper Estée
Lauder eye shadows may have
been the stars of makeup artist
Tom Pecheux’s look for Derek
Lam, but his secret weapon was
a Q-tip. He used one to soften
and blend any severe makeup
lines, especially around the lips,
explaining that hard lines around
the mouth remind him of a
schoolteacher. “And who wants
to kiss an old teacher?” he asked.
The man does have a (softly
smudged) point.
—Janna Johnson, ELLE Beauty
Assistant
Click here for our complete fall
2010 Fashion Week coverage
Photo: Courtesy of Estée Lauder
killing a pedestrian while driving
under the influence just outside
Miami on March 14. He was
reinstated the day after Super
Bowl XLIV, then released by the
Cleveland Browns the same day.
58 Gadgets/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Et tu, Nokia?
by Scott Merrill (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:30:35 AM

In the US we have a somewhat

myopic view of cell phones. We
have iPhones and Blackberrys
and now Androids and Nexuses
for smartphones, and a whole
bunch of feature phones from
manufacturers like LG and
Motorola and Samsung. Notably
absent from most wireless stores
in the U.S. are Nokia, which is
odd since Nokia owns more of
the global cell phone market than
its next three competitors
combined. Part of this
discrepancy is no doubt due to
the market differences between
Street Chic:
U.S. carriers and wireless
carriers in the rest of the world.
New York
should you change your tactics opportunity, and U.S. carriers are Nokia’s Ovi initiatives very
But a large part of this can be
explained by Nokia’s sheer to get traction in the U.S., of all losing out on some great seriously, because it’s not a core Fashion Week
arrogance. places? According to this slightly handsets. strength of Nokia’s. They’re by ELLE.com (ELLE News
When I was at Nokia World in inebriated man, Nokia CEO Olli- Whether this anecdote is seen as a handset manufacturer, Blog)
late 2008, I had a very nice chat Pekka Kallasvuo opened his accurate or not, the fact remains and the expertise therein does not
Submitted at 2/17/2010 4:00:00 AM
at a party with a Nokia negotiations with Verizon by that Nokia is the odd man out in prima facie allow them to build
employee. I asked him about stating “We don’t need you.” the U.S. I think we can all and maintain a kick ass software A statement necklace adds an
Nokia’s relative scarcity in the Not a lot of wiggle room in that forgive Apple’s walled garden suite. elegant edge to a lingerie-
U.S., and he said quite frankly position, and there’s really no approach with its iPhone and There’s a bit over at inspired top.
that the problem was Nokia’s where to go but backwards. associated app store because VentureBeat that digs into this a Photo: Anne Ziegler
management’s opinion of their Well, the carriers feel they don’t Apple has been a computer and bit more. The basic premise is Click here for our complete fall
company. Being the world’s need Nokia. I guess both software maker for a long time: consistent with what the Nokia 2010 Fashion Week coverage
largest cell phone maker can give opinions are technically correct, this is what they do, and they guy at the party told me. Think you are Street Chic? E-
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SpyNet Video Watch Lets Your Kid Record You

Picking Your Nose [We Love Toys]
by Kyle VanHemert their files online. There they can
(Gizmodo) run lie detector software and
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:00:00 PM
video analysis, or download
specially-tailored missions for
The flagship toy in Jakks use with their SpyNet watch.
And now Redbox will
Pacific's new SpyNet line is the The USB port also allows for have to wait 28 days for
Secret Mission Video Watch, a the addition of accessories, like new Warner Bros.
piece of wearable tech that lets the SnakeCam for recording DVDs
spies-in-training covertly record audio sneakily around corners.
video and audio and upload The watch will be available later by Nicholas Deleon
those sensitive materials to a this year for kids who are ready (CrunchGear)
secure website for further to do some real spying. Or for Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:30:30 AM
analysis. grown-ups who can't bring
For my generation, Macaulay themselves to order real, Warner Bros. has agreed a new
Culkin's use of the Talkboy in professional quality spy gear. deal with Redbox that will give
Home Alone 2 was the single Toy Fair is the annual event Redbox access to its DVDs, but
most glorious realization of pictures with a built-in camera kid won't quite be James Bond, where we get to completely only 28 days after the retail
usable spy technology that we for playback on the watch's color but he won't be the goofball from regress back to childhood and release. The move is designed to
had ever seen. Following in its screen. Get Smart either. check out all of the awesome encourage people to actually buy
lineage, the chunky SpyNet OK, it's not going to be HD- Anyway, the fun doesn't stop at toys coming out for the rest of the shiny, new DVDs when they
watch—no, I don't have baby quality, "enhance, enhance" type the wrist—the watch interfaces the year. And well, we love toys. come out. Why is that a
hands—actually gives kids real stuff, but from the demo I saw, with a proprietary website that problem?
spying capabilities: the ability to the recorded footage is definitely will allow kids to transfer their The idea makes sense from
shoot up to 30 minutes of video, good enough for some low- files online via the watch's mini AND page 60
2 hours of audio, or 2000 stakes familial blackmail. Your USB port and securely review

Next-Generation Nintendo DS May Get Tilt Controls [Rumor]

by Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 12:48:20 PM
Nintendo has seeded the DS2
development kit to a few selected
companies, including the
hardware itself. According to one
developer, Nintendo said the
DS2 was the first version and not
final, but he is very impressed
with the new controls:
It's genuinely the best thing I
think I've ever worked with. I
can tell you that it's got a 'tilt'
function that's not dissimilar to
iPhone, but does a lot more. We
know that The Pokemon
Company are getting special
attention with it.
I wonder if this move was a reaction to Apple's huge
always on the cards or if it's just
success in the gaming arena, a
success that has turned upside
down both the idea of games
distribution and some of the
conceptions for mobile gaming
previously set by Nintendo and
Sony, especially when it comes
to the importance of physical
controls. Would the new DS2
include capacitive screens too?
How could Nintendo one-up the
sudden and serious threat that
Apple now represents? We will
have to wait a long time to
discover the answers. Probably
too much, probably way after the
iPad and the next iPod/iPhone
generation appear. [ CVG]
60 Gadgets/
Third-party studio offers more
confirmation of motion-sensing
Nintendo DS2
by Donald Melanson
(Engadget)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:46:00 PM
We've already had a pretty clear
Shuttle outfits X50 V2 indication that Nintendo's
inevitable DS successor would
and J series desktops with have at least some form of
motion control, and an
unspecified third-party studio
Clash of the Titans regalia has now offered some additional
confirmation of that, and some
by Vladislav Savov your Greek mythology and want downright glowing impressions
(Engadget) a small computer that can fit of the device itself. According to
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:24:00 PM
Core i7 CPUs and dual-GPU CVG, an "insider" that's
setups (SX58J3), why not? Best currently using a DS2
A r e y o u a f a n o f e p i c , of all, you can even win one of development kit says that the
m u l t i d i m e n s i o n a l c i n e m a these, so after you've read the PR DS2 is "genuinely the best thing
extravaganzas? Well, Shuttle after the break, hit the source
wants to help you show off your link to find out how. AND
fandom with these here limited Continue reading Shuttle outfits continued from page 59
edition Clash of the Titans tie-in X50 V2 and J series desktops Warner’s perspective. It’s no
machines. The new J series with Clash of the Titans regalia secret that DVD sales aren’t
entertainment SFF PCs will Shuttle outfits X50 V2 and J what they used to be, so Warner
come with the most appealing series desktops with Clash of the wants to squeeze every last
package, which includes the T i t a n s r e g a l i a o r i g i n a l l y penny out of them as possible.
colorful front faceplate above, appeared on Engadget on Wed, Think: what was the last DVD
while the Pine Trail-packing X50 17 Feb 2010 13:24:00 EST. you purchased? I bought a
V2 will be preloaded with Please see our terms for use of couple of Dragon Gate USA
wallpapers and imagery from the feeds. Permalink| Shuttle| Email DVDs the other day, but that
forthcoming flick. We like to this| Comments hardly counts. I bought a Top
mock such blatantly commercial Gear DVD collection in London
efforts, but if you really are into in the fall, but that was a once-in
-a-lifetime opportunity: when
E-reader News Edition
Company is getting "special
attention" with it (rest easy,
everybody), and that Nintendo
likely won't be showing off any
hardware at GDC next month.
Yeah, that sound you just heard
was the rumor mill being
cranked up a notch.
Third-party studio offers more
confirmation of motion-sensing
Nintendo DS2 originally
appeared on Engadget on Wed,
17 Feb 2010 13:46:00 EST.
I think I've ever worked with," Please see our terms for use of
and that it has "a 'tilt' function feeds. Permalink iPodNN| CVG|
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but does a lot more." The source
further added that The Pokemon
will I ever go to an HMV again? all know, Wal-Mart runs this
Before that? I couldn’t even tell country.) So, in order to prevent
you, probably like a Simpsons Redbox from eating into its sales
season in 2005 or something. for a bit, we now have the 28-
The point is, who buys new day wait. Big deal, it’s 28 days.
DVDs anymore? Exactly. Flickr
That’s what Warner’s afraid of:
people will just rent all movies
from now from places like
Netflix and Redbox and iTunes.
(I imagine Redbox is pretty
damn huge, what with it being
right there in Wal-Mart. As we
E-reader News Edition Gadgets/ 61

Notepod+ Is the Only

Pad iNeed [Ipad]
by John Herrman (Gizmodo) to simulate an iPad, is always
Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:43:32 PM there, even when your Mac Pro
development machine isn't. It
Developers' block: It's a serious doesn't have an SDK, but it's got
thing! It's not easy to churn out plenty of white space, ok?
app after app, somehow tricking Got an idea for a new UI
the masses into giving you concept? Scribble it down! A
money for your decreasingly splash screen? Sketch it up! A
interesting widgets. Maybe— clever concept for a plainly
Prison cellphone jamming gets its maybe—the Notepod+ can help. derivative novelty product,
Never mind that the iPad SDK which costs practically nothing

first test in Maryland includes a full-featured emulator, to print but costs $20 anyway?
which would let you test your Draw. It. Out. [ TUAW via
apps live and in motion, the T h e A w e s o m e r via
by Joseph L. Flatley with emergency response and help but wonder how HBO's Oz
(Engadget) legitimate cell phone use near would have turned out Notepad+, which stretches the G e e k y g a d g e t s ]
prisons, but the state is differently if this had happened original Notepod's concept to the
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:09:00 PM
determined to put those ten years ago. full 189mm x 243mm necessary
As we wait for the Safe Prisons criticisms to rest -- and to keep Prison cellphone jamming gets
Communication Act to pass the inmates from using contraband its first test in Maryland
House, word comes out of cellphones for prank calling the originally appeared on Engadget
Maryland that FCI Cumberland warden's wife, sexting folks on on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:09:00
will begin testing cellphone the outside, ordering brutal EST. Please see our terms for
jamming technology this week. execution-style "hits" on people, use of feeds. Permalink| Yahoo|
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plan have voiced concerns that law-abiding citizens that prisons
the technology could interfere are meant to protect. We can't
62 Gadgets/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

What's On Tonight:
Olympics, 'Human Target,'
'Man vs. Wild,' 'Psych'
by Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 12:09:00 PM

Here's tonight's TV lineup (all

times Eastern).

• At 8, NBC has The Olympics.

• FOX has a new'Human Target'
at 8, then a new'American Idol.'
• PBS has a new'Faces of
America' at 8.
• At 9, Syfy has a new'Ghost
Hunters International.'
• Discovery has a new'Man vs.
Wild' at 9, followed by a
new'Solving History with Olly
Steeds.'
• At 10, USA has a new'Psych.'
• TNT has a new'Leverage' at
10.
• FX has a new'Nip/Tuck.'
HTC Desire ROM makes Sense on • TBS has two new episodes
of'Tyler Perry's Meet The
Browns' at 10.
• TV Land has a new'High
School Reunion' at 10.
• Also at 10: MTV has a new
episode of'The Real World.'
Check your local TV listings for
more.
After the jump, the late night
talk shows.
Continue reading What's On
Tonight: Olympics, 'Human
Target,' 'Man vs. Wild,' 'Psych'
Filed under: Late Night,
Programming, Celebrities, Talk

the Nexus One • Food Network has a

by Nilay Patel (Engadget)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:33:00 PM
It's no secret that the HTC
Desire is the exact same
hardware are the Nexus One with
a Sense-based Android build on
top of it, so it shouldn't be any
surprise that enterprising hacker
Modaco has already starting
porting the Desire's ROM to the
N1. Interestingly, the system file
is a little too big for the Nexus
One's internal storage, so some
rearranging was necessary, and
not everything works yet, but it's
a start -- and apparently Flash
10.1 is included and enabled, so
this one should be a hot ticket
when it's released.
new'Throwdown with Bobby
Flay' at 10.
Show, What To Watch Tonight,
Reality-Free
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E-reader News Edition
Steve Jobs: The Biography
by Liam Cassidy
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 12:35:50 PM
Fanboys, be still your beating
hearts; word on the street is that
El Jobso himself is (finally!)
working on his own completely
genuine and official biography.
Writing in The New York Times
today, Brad Stone reports that
the book we’ve all been yearning
to get our hands on is in the early
planning stages;
…Apple’s chief executive is set
to collaborate on an authorized
biography, to be written by
Walter Isaacson, the former
managing editor of Time
magazine, according to two
people briefed on the project.
Walter Isaacson is no slouch
when it comes to writing
biographies of important people.
Previous works include Einstein:
His Life and Universe and
Benjamin Franklin: An
American Life. A title he
published last year, American
Sketches: Great Leaders,
Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of
a Hurricane was a series of
essays written on the subject of
great leadership.
So, hardly surprising then that
he’s the scribe charged with
documenting the life of Stephen
P. Jobs, Genius Entrepreneur and
Super Ego. It’s quite something
to be able to say you share your
biographer with both a Founding
Father and the man who
unlocked the secrets of the
Universe.
The book, which is in the early
planning stages, would cover the
entire life of Mr. Jobs, from his
youth in the area now known as
Silicon Valley. [Jobs has]
…invited Mr. Isaacson to tour
his childhood home, one person
with knowledge of the discussion
said.
Naturally, both Isaacson and
Apple declined to comment.
What To Expect
I wonder, can we expect a really
honest account of The Steve’s
life? If you’ve ever watched
Pirates of Silicon Valley(widely
considered an accurate portrayal
of young Jobs and Gates) you’ll
know very well what a, shall we
say, “rambunctious chap” Steve
could be as he steered Apple to
its first dizzying heights of
success. (I’m being polite;
perhaps a better phrase is
“insanely megalomaniacally
hostile, selfish and unkind” —
yeah, that might be more
accurate.)
You see, while Steve Jobs is a
genius (there’s no doubt about
that) he has earned something of
a reputation for being an
impatient, quick-to-anger man.
Again, I’m choosing polite
words.
Will he, for example, admit to
moments of sheer good-fortune
that have subsequently been
incorrectly attributed to some
special “vision” on his part? (I’m
Apple/ 63
it mean, writing his biography
now? The instant easy answer is
that it might not mean anything
at all …or nothing more than the
fact that a publisher (in this case,
probably Simon & Schuster, who
have published all Isaaconson’s
books to date) has offered Jobs
the right incentive. I don’t mean
to suggest Steve Jobs is short of
cash, but rather, his biography (a
surefire best-seller and cash cow
for any publisher) might be part
of an iPad-related digital
publishing negotiation. (I don’t
know that, nor do I want to start
any silly conspiracy theories.
Like I said, the timing might not
mean anything at all.)
sure there are a few such salesman. A very good salesman, But I’ll leave you with one last
examples.) Will he address the to be sure, but I don’t want to thought – what if this book
mistakes and failures that we r e a d a 3 0 0 + p a g e b o o k proves to be the final word from
assume were pretty significant celebrating what a wonderful Apple’s current CEO? What if
moments of disappointment in salesman Steve Jobs is. this biography is the parting one
his career? (The Cube, anyone?) I think we can safely say what more thing from Steve Jobs as he
And what about all those drugs won’t be in it; love affairs and prepares for retirement? It was
in the 70’s? Will he talk about reluctant parenthood are just the rumored earlier this year that
that openly, honestly, frankly? sort of “private matters” Jobs is Jobs considered the iPad the
If he doesn’t, if this book u n l i k e l y t o w a n t i n h i s most important thing he’d ever
contains none of that gritty, hard- biography. (They’re just too done; if that’s true, he probably
edged truth, it’ll be panned by gritty.) feels like it’s almost the right
every critic on the planet. It’ll be Don’t forget, Steve Jobs is the time to step down – while he’s
like Michael Jackson’s 1988 master of Stubbornly Refusing to still at the very top of his game.
biography Moonwalk– 283 Accept or Admit When Things What do you think we can we
pages of fluff that added little of Are Not Perfect. That celebrated e x p e c t f r o m t h e o f f i c i a l
value to the man’s legacy. And, Reality Distortion Field usually biography? Does it mark the end
while I certainly admire and placates the unwashed masses of an era? Share your thoughts in
respect Steve Jobs’ achievements during keynote speeches, but the comments below.
in the industry (not to mention likely won’t be conveyed at full-
his skills as a public speaker) I’m power through the pages of a
not such a blind fanboy I fail to book. Timing
see that he is, essentially, a I can’t help thinking, what does
64 Apple/ Economy/
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Details Revealed
by Darrell Etherington
(TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 4:00:14 PM
I was only just talking about
how long its been since Adobe
released a new major update to
its flagship Creative Suite
product with an imaging
professional friend, and now
there’s a sign that we won’t have
to wait much longer for said
update to arrive. AppleInsider
got an exclusive look at some of
the new features coming up in
various CS5 programs, some of
which look mighty appealing to
my hobbyist eye.
Photoshop CS5 will finally
become 64-bit, for starters,
something which Photoshop CS4
for Windows could claim nearly
two years ago in 2008. The new
64-bit Photoshop CS5 has be
completely rewritten in Apple’s
Cocoa development framework,
after Apple’s decision to scrap a
64-bit version of Carbon blocked
the simultaneous release of a 64-
bit Photoshop CS4 for Mac. But
that’s not all. Many other new
goodies are also forthcoming.
Many Behind-the-Scenes
Improvements
As a frequent, though not very
in-depth user of Photoshop CS4,
I consider it by far the best
iteration of Adobe’s image editor
to date, and so I wasn’t too
disappointed to learn that many
of the changes made in CS5 will
come as backstage
enhancements. Like Apple did
with Snow Leopard, Adobe’s
engineering efforts with the new
version of Photoshop were
concentrated on taking better
advantage of available system
and software resources.
Those improvements will result
in a nice little speed boost
according to AppleInsider:
In its own internal tests, Adobe
found the average 64-bit app to
run about 8 to 12 percent faster
than a 32-bit one. The primary
advantage of 64-bit applications
is their ability to address very
large amounts of memory in
excess of the 4GB limit of 32-bit
apps.
Other changes will mostly affect
users who do a lot of 3D work,
which is something I’ve never
even attempted. Few other
details about these changes were
revealed, although specific
feature information about
improved photo retouching,
including smart object removal
was part of the report. If it works
as well as advertised, this feature
alone will make the upgrade
worth my while. Flash,
Dreamweaver and InDesign
Many of the changes being
introduced in other software
titles included in Adobe’s
Creative Suite 5 seem aimed at
shoring up and further
entrenching Flash web
technology, to the detriment of
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based Flash tie-ins to their print at Household
content, or just making it easier
to introduce Flash content into
their InDesign-created websites.
Balance Sheets
by Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Testers were confused about why Picture)
Adobe would try to shift focus
for InDesign to web content Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:30:36 AM
creation, when Dreamweaver is
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continue developing it.
thing. Perhaps the fear is that
Interesting data set from Dave
InDesign will become less
Rosenberg:
appealing as print culture
• Households own $18.2 trillion
continues to falter. Web Review
HTML 5, which threatens to Across the Board of residential real estate, even
eventually render Flash almost While a lot of the new features after the value destruction of the
irrelevant. past three years.
revealed so far seem focused on
Flash CS5 includes the ability to righting the sinking ship that is • Households own $18.1 trillion
convert Flash apps and games Flash, some seem genuinely of equities, despite the vicious
into code that will be accepted useful to all users. One such bear market.
by the iTunes App Store, though improvement is the introduction • Households own a near-record
according to the sources for the of web review across of the CS5 $7.7 trillion of deposits and cash
report that isn’t yet working in p r o d u c t s . T h i s w i l l a l l o w — earning next to nothing in
the beta versions of the software: designers and artists working in yield.
This functionality is not the various creative suite • Households own $4.6 trillion of
working in the current beta applications to quickly and easily consumer durable goods.
versions. We don’t think serious share proofs and samples with • Households own $3.5 trillion of
developers will use Flash for clients and coworkers who don’t corporate bonds and
creating iPhone applications. It have access to CS5 themselves. municipal/agency paper.
a l s o a p p e a r s t h a t A d o b e It should take at least a few steps • What do households own in
continues to miss the boat with out of the QA process, and Treasury notes and bonds? Try
HTML 5, and is focused almost anything you can do to simplify $800 billion.
exclusively on trying to get users that headache of a process is Pretty fascinating stuff . . .
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iPad Transformation of Print Industry Continues Fed officials

by Charles Jade
(TheAppleBlog)
Store and negotiations with the
music industry, the main point of
for the iPad launch. The decline
of print media is accelerating,
debate timing
Submitted at 2/16/2010 3:16:11 PM
contention between Apple and
publishers appears to be that of
and thus far magazines and
newspapers have been unable to of asset sales
While Apple has yet to sell a control, specifically pricing and monetize web sites. The Kindle (Financial Times - US
single iPad, the device has s u b s c r i b e r i n f o r m a t i o n . has failed to achieve the kind of homepage)
a l r e a d y c h a l l e n g e d t h e Publishers rely on subscriber success as a portable device that
Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:42:01 AM
domination of Amazon and the information to not just to reach the iPhone and iPad touch have,
Kindle for e-books, and now customers, but to plan the leaving the iPad as the only Message from fivefilters.org: If
periodical and newspapers are d i r e c t i o n o f p u b l i c a t i o n s . current hope for a transition from you can, please donate to the full
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for their business models. releasing little beyond sales data print media. If not Apple and the continue developing it.
At the TED conference, Wired has, according to one executive iPad, then who? Federal Reserve officials are
Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris of a major U.S. newspaper, the The danger is that cold anxious to shrink the central
Anderson used the tired “game potential to be a “dealbreaker.” rationality might not prevail, bank’s swollen balance sheet but
changer” moniker in referring to Beyond that, there is the issue of even if it means the worst for are wrestling to determine how
the iPad, while doing a Wired price and single sales versus print media. If that happens, to shed assets accumulated
demo on a large multi-touch subscription sales, with Apple New York Times argue that
Apple won’t suffer nearly as during the financial crisis
display. Readers of Wired on the demanding 30 percent of revenue unless the iPad edition is priced
much as the New York Times, without disrupting the recovery,
iPad will be able to view content for both types of transactions. between $20 and $30, people
but iPad owners will lose out. A according to meeting minutes
vertically like a web page, or on “You can imagine we feel less will cancel the print edition (I
dearth of content can hurt the released on Wednesday.
t w o p a g e s l i k e t h e p r i n t good about it,” said another had no idea Captain Obvious
iPad as the Apple TV has been Policymakers agreed that the
m a g a z i n e , e a s i l y r o t a t i n g media executive, asserting that worked at the New York Times).
hurt, especially when trying to Fed should return to holding
between the two. There will also “30 percent forever changes the More sanely, those responsible
convince consumers to embrace short-term Treasury securities to
be plenty of flicking, zooming, economics.” Arguably, that’s a for the digital edition of the
a new platform. Apple doesn’t replace maturing agency debt
and interactive media in the new f a i r p o i n t , a n d c e r t a i n l y paper are suggesting $10 per
need another hobby, and print and mortgage-backed securities.
format, too. That’s the good television executives have thus month is about right. In
media needs a business model Officials debated the merits of
news for publishers. comparison, the Kindle edition
far refused offering subscriptions that works. asset sales, with some arguing
According to Anderson, the iPad for iTunes, reportedly $30 a of the New York Times costs
Related GigaOM Pro Research: they should be gradual and
is “part of the answer” for the month and similar to what one $13.99 per month, and that’s
• Web Tablet Survey: Apple’s others fearing that selling them
future of print media, but the gets from cable TV. without color, let alone
iPad Hits Right Notes too soon could have “adverse
Financial Times is reporting that The problem is $30 a month interactive media.
• 5 Tips for Developers implications” for the economy if
talks with other publishers are may be what the New York If the rumors about what’s going
Targeting the iPad the recovery is not self-
raising new questions about the Times wants all by itself. on at the New York Times is
• How AT&T Will Deal with sustaining.
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Netbook Shipments Skyrocket, Apple Still

Missing the Boat
by Charles Moore too, although it doesn’t support
(TheAppleBlog) multitouch technology.
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:05:30 AM
Connectivity-wise, the knockoff
netbook is somewhat less
The Register’s Tony Smith challenged than a real MacBook
The Amazing View
notes in a report that the last 12 Air, with two USB 2.0 ports from the International
months have been good for rather than the MBA’s one, a Space Station's Brand
netbook makers, who mini-HDMI port, and one
cumulatively shipped 30.2 headphone jack, but you also get
New Window
million of the mini laptops in an Ethernet port and a SD-card by Jeremy Hsu (Popular
that period. According to market slot — not bad at all for a $280 Science - New Technology,
watcher Strategy Analytics, laptop. There’s also a webcam Science News, The Future
that’s 79 percent more than they
Now)
along with an infrared detector
moved in 2008 and amounts to beside it. Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:16:28 AM
50-60 percent of total portable The downside cited is noise,
PCs shipped and around 17-20 with the fan reportedly running Twitpics from space just got
percent of PCs sold overall. t h a n t h e i P a d d o e s i n i t s Of course it’s not really a Mac, almost nonstop during basic even more interesting with the
The researcher also forecasts a n n o u n c e d c o n f i g u r a t i o n . and OS X is not supported. It is a operation, which would be addition of a brand new cupola
further growth this year as C h i n e s e K n o c k o f f s PC netbook in ersatz Mac tiresome, especially if you’re fan window aboard the International
netbook chips deliver more A knockoff outfit in China is clothing, powered by the latest noise averse like me. Space Station. Japanese
performance and ARM licensees s h o w i n g t h e w a y , h a v i n g version of the ubiquitous As far as I can tell, these units astronaut Soichi Noguchi has
take on Intel’s dominant Atom released a tantalizing example of 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU aren’t likely to ever make it to accordingly updated his Twitter
platform. the potential for a truly appealing with 1GB of RAM (upgradable North America as it’s a given feed with a fresh Twitpic of the
The iPad notwithstanding, I’m Apple netbook, if Apple were to 2GB RAM at a modest that Apple Legal would have a Sahara desert framed within the
still convinced that Apple has inclined to play ball. The additional cost of $180 RMB), a lot to say about it. But if they cupola.
fumbled the ball in not offering a Chinese tech industry watching 160GB hard drive, a13.3-inch were available, I don’t think I "Let there be light! Cupola
netbook. If it can sell an iPad for blog M.I.C (ie: “Made-In- (1280 x 800) LED-backlit could resist. It looks like a great windows open toward Sahara
$500, I deduce that a netbook China”) has posted a review of display and a swappable 4-cell little inexpensive solution for desert. Priceless!" Noguchi
with a clamshell form factor, a what it calls “the ultimate battery, plus 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, taking on the road, and possibly tweeted.
real keyboard and trackpad, plus MacBook Air knockoff” — the and, get this: selling for only running Ubuntu or Puppy Linux Noguchi's new observation view
ideally a low-powered Intel Core best MacBook Air wannabe ever, $1,900 RMB (which converts to on instead of Windows. comes courtesy of the space
CPU, decent connectivity, and featuring a real glowing Apple about $280 USD). To say it’s How about you? Would a shuttle Endeavour. The shuttle
capability to run the real Mac logo and a form factor almost as much more affordable than machine like this appeal? More crew installed the window during
O S , s h o u l d b e e m i n e n t l y thin as the real MBA — which Apple’s real MacBook Air is an pointedly, don’t you wish Apple an overnight spacewalk, and it
possible at $600 – $650 for entry M.I.C. thinks is possibly the extreme understatement. would build a netbook Mac like appears that Noguchi has not
-level and I contend it would be a most beautiful product the The M.I.C. reviewers say typing this? wasted any time putting his
strong seller at that price. It’d Chinese knockoff makers have is a pleasure on the MBA massive 800mm camera lens to
certainly be a machine that ever copied. I’m inclined to knockoff’s full-sized keyboard, use. We showcased some more
would appeal to me much more agree. and there’s a spacious trackpad of the astronaut photographer's
work here.
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Apple Admits MacBook Hard Drives Defective,

Offers Free Repair Program
by Darrell Etherington this problem, and you’ve already
(TheAppleBlog) paid out of pocket to get it fixed
Submitted at 2/17/2010 7:50:07 AM
or replace your drive, you can
contact Apple Technical Support
In a move reminiscent of the and inquire about a
warranty extension Apple reimbursement process. No word
offered to MacBook Pro owners on whether that extends to at
affected by NVIDIA-gate, the home HD replacements, which is
Mac maker announced this week how I would’ve tried to solve the
that it would offer a similar problem, but if you haven’t kept
consideration to some MacBook your old faulty drive, I highly
owners whose hard drives are
easy to identify. Your MacBook your hard drive is affected, doubt it would. Mostly I expect
crashing. Eligible models (black
will just stop working altogether, Apple will replace it with a new this will apply when people have
and white MacBooks sold
and any attempts to boot it will hard drive. You will need to taken their machines through
between May 2006 and
December 2007) affected by the
result in a screen that displays a have the original OS installation official Apple repair channels to Richard Hatch Still
folder icon with a question mark discs that were shipped with correct the problem.
problem will be repaired at no
over top of it, as in the image your product in order to re-install The extension period covers
Ticked About Being
cost.
below. As someone who’s seen your operating system, other affected Macs three years from Thrown Back in Jail
On the support page created to
this screen many times while applications, and any backed up the date of purchase, for this
describe the problem and the specific problem alone, or until by Joel Keller (TV Squad)
fixing up old PowerBooks, I can data.
resulting warranty extension,
tell you it isn’t a heartening If you need assistance finding August 15, 2010, whichever Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:07:00 PM
Apple doesn’t mention which
experience. the best service option in your comes last, so you still have
brand of hard drives are affected When CBS threw their tenth-
Apple describes what you area, you may contact Apple about six months in which your
by name, which could mean that anniversary party for'Survivor'
should do if you’re greeted with Technical Support for more HD can fail and you’ll still be
the problem doesn’t lie with the covered. It may seem like an last month during the TCA press
such a screen: information.
hard drives themselves, but with tour, there was only one person I
Please take your MacBook to It sounds like any data you may arbitrary window, but Apple
some other system components. wanted to talk to: Richard Hatch.
the Apple representative most have stored on the drive will be does include a caveat that it will
Another indication that this is And there was only one reason I
convenient for you: irrevocably lost if this does be evaluating the repair need on
indeed the case is that all wanted to talk to him: Someone
• Apple Authorized Service happen to you, so if you have an ongoing basis and extend that
capacities of hard drive are also claiming to be him sent us an e-
Provider – Find one here. one of the affected models and d e a d l i n e i f c i r c u m s t a n c e s
affected. mail comment in response to a
• Apple Retail Store – Set up an you haven’t yet implemented any r e q u i r e .
If you’re wondering whether or Anyone experienced the post Allison did in October;
appointment with a Genius. kind of backup system, you
not you have an affected unit symptoms Apple is describing Allison basically told him to stop
should probably consider doing
(Apple says only a “small with this model MacBook? airing public comments
If Apple or an Apple Authorized so.
percentage” of users will regarding the incident that sent
Service Provider confirms that If your machine has already had
experience problems), it’s very him back to jail last summer.
If you recall, he gave an
interview with'Today' and two
other NBC properties last
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News: Melendez Won't
Be 'Tonight' Announcer
by Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:29:00 AM
Well, it seems like there's a lot
of changes coming to'The
Tonight Show' when Jay Leno
returns after the Olympics.
Yesterday Kona told you that
bandleader Kevin Eubanks
would be leaving the show once
they find a replacement, and now
we hear from Variety that
announcer John Melendez won't
be back.
But I'm not sure why this is
news. Unlike Eubanks,
Melendez wasn't the announcer
of the 10PM show -- he was
retained as a writer for the show-
- so I didn't really automatically
expect Melendez to be back
when Leno returns to 11:35. Of
course, a lot of TV fans didn't
think about it one way or
another, but it's certainly not
surprising news. Melendez will
stay on as a writer.
Honestly, Melendez shouldn't
have been Leno's announcer in
the first place (well, in the "first
place" he wasn't - Edd Hall was).
He's a bland announcer, and it
seemed that Leno (or whoever at
the show) hired him because of
some perceived hip factor
because he was on Howard
Stern's show for years.
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August; he was sent back to jail
because he was supposedly only
given permission to talk to
'Today.'
In the note to us, the person --
who we're pretty sure was Hatch,
based on some digging we did
after the note came in -- claims
that the system is "broken" and
that he doesn't owe any back
taxes, something Hatch has said
in public a number of times.
So, I decided to ask him about
whether he liked sending
Julia Mancuso leads in downhill;
Lindsey Vonn still to ski
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- Julia Mancuso of the United
States grabbed the early lead in
the women's downhill
Wednesday at the Winter
Olympics.
Mancuso's time of 1:44.75 led
by nearly a second after the first
10 racers.
American Lindsey Vonn is
scheduled to be the 16th racer
down the mountain. Vonn, the
websites e-mails like that, then
we talked a little about the case.
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race favorite, has been hampered
by a right shin injury which has
limited her practice. After a
workout Monday, her husband
reported she was in extreme
pain.
Mancuso, 25, is the defending
Olympic champion in the giant
slalom. She was not regarded as
a serious medal threat in the
downhill.
Vonn is the two-time defending
World Cup champ, and the
defending World Cup champ in
the downhill.
Germany's Maria Riesch, the
only other woman to win a
World Cup downhill this season,
is slated to race 22nd.
Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was
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second to Mancuso in 1:45.75.
American Stacey Cook, fourth
down the hill, completed the race
in 1:46.98. Cook is a downhill
specialist from Mammoth Lakes,
Calif.
The temperature was slightly
above freezing for the race on
the 2,939-meter course, dubbed
Franz's Downhill. The race was
originally scheduled for Sunday,
but was delayed by bad weather
conditions at Whistler Creekside.
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All Mike Bloomberg Wants is a Friend in the

Senate [Campaigns]
by Pareene (Gawker) city's papers behind him and "of Mr. Ford's stature."
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:34:05 PM convincing every reporter in the (Sulzberger's apparent absence
city to operate as if his third term from the Zuckerman discussions
Who exactly does Mayor-for- was an inevitability. is probably because he's still Let's Not Forget About
life Mike Bloomberg want to be The rushed Post editorial sticking with the candidate
our next Senator? First we're told encouraging Zuckerman's entry owned by his friends the David Paterson's Other
that his influential friends into the increasingly ridiculous Rattners, which is why his paper Sketchy Aide [Perks]
c o n v i n c e d a b a n k - l o v i n g Senate race makes a bit more keeps running stories like "Boy,
conservative Democrat from sense when you remember that it Harold Ford's wife is so pretty by John Cook (Gawker)
Tennessee named Harold Ford to was the Zuckerman-Murdoch- and down-to-earth.") Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:48:43 PM

run. Now, suddenly, he wants Bloomberg alliance that got The Ford flirtation and this
million-year-old hack publisher Mike reelected. apparent Zuckerman campaign The New York Times' David
Mort Zuckerman? But aren't these the same guys are the best proof yet that Mike Paterson story centered on his
Wayne Barrett at The Village forcing a ridiculous Harold Ford has completely lost it. Is aide drug-dealing, allegedly abusive
Voice noticed that the Times run down our throats? Have they Keven Sheekey still telling him staffer David Johnson. But
story on Mort's supposed Senate decided that the Ford campaign recognition. Ford might make a that he could be president? Paterson also employs Clemmie
dreams was bylined by media is too ridiculous to be salvaged? run as an independent, but he (Memo to Mike: you are an Harris, an adviser who collects
reporter Tim Arango and City (Ford will reportedly come to wouldn't end up on the GOP u n m a r r i e d s o c i a l l y l i b e r a l $30,000 a year on disability and
Hall reporter Michael Barbaro. decision regarding his "political ticket. Mort, on the other hand, billionaire Jew who lives in New doesn't appear to live in New
Those two have shared a byline intentions" at the end of this might even attract some of that York.) He barely bought his York.
only once before: when they week, or possibly at the end of Tea Party excitement these reelection in a boring campaign Adrian has heard that the Times
broke the news that Mike February, according to a brief billionaires have heard about against a complete nonentity. His is working on another story that's
B l o o m b e r g w a s g o i n g t o Daily News story today—he has lately! inflated poll numbers are at their going to be the actual bombshell.
campaign for a then-forbidden one more "listening event" left Crucially, the Barbaro story that lowest point ever. He's exhausted But today's story, which is
third term as mayor, and that on his schedule.) It's hard to see launched the beautiful Ford his political capital. Now he and eliciting yawns from Albany's
he'd enlisted the support of Daily M u r d o c h a n d o u r c i t y ' s campaign named Democratic h i s d u m b r i c h f r i e n d s a r e chattering class, was focused on
News publisher Zuckerman, Republican mayor having any donors Steven Rattner and mistaking their other dumb rich Johnson's troubled past and aired
New York Post and Wall Street influence over a Democratic Maureen White as the big names friends for people of stature. concerns that he has accumulated
J o u r n a l p u b l i s h e r R u p e r t primary. But Mort has been behind Ford. Mayor Mike was M o r t Z u c k e r m a n i s a an inordinate amount of power in
Murdoch, and Times publisher tacking hard right lately, and only said to be "open to the lightweight. At least ambition- Albany:
Pinch Sulzberger. That was a these guys might just think that possibility of supporting a troll Harold Ford can work a [M]ore than four current or
great big scoop that revealed in this climate, the only thing challenger of Mr. Ford's stature." hotel lounge. former officials expressed
precisely the method Bloomberg s t a n d i n g i n t h e w a y o f a Which, you know, the couple concern that Mr. Johnson and
would employ to buy his way Republican pickup is a candidate from the Hillside Honda another aide, a former state
into a third term: aligning the w i t h m o n e y a n d n a m e commercial have turned out to be trooper, had become the
governor's innermost circle and
were simply not best equipped to
help him tackle the multiple
challenges facing him.

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That "former state trooper" is
Harris—whose full, and
awesome, first name is
Clementine—whom people
familiar with Paterson's office
describe as Johnson's equal in
terms of power over policy and
control over access to Paterson
(that's Harris in the middle
above). And like Johnson, Harris
had a nontraditional rise to
power—he spent 14 years as a
New York state trooper before
attending the University of
Albany as an adult, and was
Paterson's roommate in the early
1990s. Harris and Johnson's
special relationship with
Paterson—they both frequently
spend nights at the governor's
mansion—has inspired suspicion
and jealousy among the rest of
his staff.
According to an Albany Times-
Union story in September, Harris
left the state police force in 1997
due to an "undisclosed medical
issue," and still receives annual
disability payments totaling
$29,500. Given the fact that he
works full-time for the state of
New York, and is well enough to
rack up travel bills totaling
$29,000 in 2008 and 2009, it's
unclear what his disability is.
The Times-Union also reported
that Harris doesn't seem to live in
New York, despite a state law
requiring that powerful officials
live in the state. As of
September, Harris was registered
to vote in Pennsylvania, where
he is pursuing a PhD at the
University of Pennsylvania, and
didn't have a car registered in
New York. And Harris had listed
a Philadelphia address on his
University of Albany alumni
profile as recently as August of
2009. All of which may have
explained the $15,500 in hotel
bills—mostly at a Westchester
hotel—that Harris paid with a
state credit card in 2008 and
2009. When he's in Albany, he
frequently stays at the governor's
mansion.
Sure, it's not drug-dealing and
wife-beating, but we hope the
attention focused on Johnson
doesn't overshadow the guy who
appears to be running disability
scams and living in hotels on the
state dime because he refuses to
rent or buy a place of his own.
People Would Like
Things to Be Free Instead
of Not Free [Media Crack]
by Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:04:12 PM
In your completely literal
Wednesday media column:
unsurprising insight into
consumer preferences, ABC
executives support ABC
employee, Charlie Gasparino
gets a new job, and Reader's
Digest and Playboy have
problems.
[ It's come to our attention
recently that some readers are
having trouble picking up on
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Sources: San Diego Chargers shopping cornerback Antonio

Cromartie for running back
by Chris Mortensen
(ESPN.com)
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With LaDainian Tomlinson's
career in San Diego declared all
but over and Darren Sproles
facing free agency, the Chargers
are exploring possible trade
scenarios that include dealing
cornerback Antonio Cromartie to
acquire a running back,
according to league sources.
Cromartie is a four-year starter,
a former first-round draft pick
and was selected to the Pro Bowl
in 2007 when he intercepted 10
passes. Sources have said he has
fallen out of favor with the
Chargers, who also have a pair
of corners in Quentin Jammer
and Antoine Cason who were
first-round picks.
The Chargers' most pressing
offseason need is in the offensive
backfield. Tomlinson declared
shortly after the season that he
believed his nine-year career
with the Chargers is finished. He
expects to be released shortly.
Sproles is a pending restricted
free agent who would be due
$7.3 million in 2010 if the
Chargers tender him a contract, a
10 percent increase over his 2009
franchise-tag salary of $6.67
million. Sproles has said he
intends to test the market but
expressed a preference to remain
in San Diego.
Among the teams that have
running back depth are the
Dallas Cowboys with Marion
Barber, Felix Jones and Tashard
Choice at the position. Several
teams are looking for cornerback
depth, including the Green Bay
Packers, sources said.
The Chargers may be willing to
trade Cromartie for a draft choice
that could give them more
flexibility to select at least one
running back in this year's draft,
sources said.
Chris Mortensen is a senior NFL
analyst for ESPN.
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sarcasm has been purged from
today's edition of Media Crack.]
A new survey shows that "85
percent of Internet users believed
that online content that is
currently free should remain
free." This is thoroughly
unsurprising, because free things
save consumers money, and
consumers will therefore
generally prefer that anything be
free, if given the choice.
ABC executives strenuously
insist that George
Stephanopoulos is doing
fantastic work in his new
morning show job. But ABC
executives may be untrustworthy
sources, because they have a
vested interest in the success of
the very show for which George
Stephanopoulos works.
As previously rumored, TV
reporter Charlie Gasparino is
leaving CNBC for a job at Fox
Business Network. It would be
reasonable to speculate that Fox
felt that Mr. Gasparino could
contribute to the success of their
network, and therefore made him
an offer superior to the one that
CNBC made in an effort to retain
his services.
Among the magazines with
circulations of more than 2
million, the two that failed to
make their rate base in the
second half of last year were
Reader's Digest and Playboy.
Not coincidentally, both of these
magazines have been in financial
peril for some time now. The fact
that their circulation seems to be
plummeting is unlikely to
brighten their prospects.
We hope you enjoyed the added
clarity of today's media column.
But the notion of continuing in
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U.S. Hockey Team Gets
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Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:32:07 AM
“A win is a win is a win,”
coaches are fond of saying. True
enough, and that’s what Team
USA accomplished Tuesday in
its 3-1 victory over Switzerland
to open the men’s hockey find flow after coming together
tournament at the Vancouver only on Monday. Associated
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Donte Stallworth signs contract with Baltimore Ravens

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(ESPN.com) Stallworth served 24 days of a and driving. I have to show There's no doubt about that. He contract in 2008. That year he
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the Baltimore Ravens, hoping to incentives. privilege to play in the NFL, and think he has a chance to help us. catches and 945 yards in 2005.
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Press Goalie Ryan Miller (left)
gets congratulations from
teammate Jack Johnson after the
U.S.’s win.
After its disastrous eighth-place
showing four years ago in Turin,
the U.S. has retooled its roster,
dumping a lot of veterans in
favor of new blood. Sports
Illustrated’s Michael Farber likes
the makeup of the U.S. squad,
which got its first goal off the
stick of a fourth-line player,
David Backes, after a couple of
nifty moves. “The goal was
precisely the kind of wizardry
Team USA was expecting from
its small and swift forwards, not
one of the fourth-line monsters
expected to do the heavy lifting,”
Farber writes. “While it is
difficult to measure the import of
the opening victory over a
moderately dangerous hockey
country — Switzerland 2,
Canada 0 in Turin 2006 — you
can measure this: The three
American scorers averaged 63
and 218, roughly the size of NFL
strong safeties. This was not
glitz. This was Team USA GM
Brian Burke’s Hungry Man
Hockey.”
ESPN’s Scott Burnside says
Tuesday’s win goes a long way
toward answering many
questions surrounding the team.
Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel has the
story on Brian Burke, the U.S.
general manager who is back at
work after the recent death of his
son, Brendan, in an auto
accident.
Canada started slowly before
cruising to an 8-0 victory over
Norway, but the Toronto Star’s
Damien Cox says everyone
knows tougher challenges lie
ahead.
Salon’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss
sees a new Cold War percolating
between Canada and Russia,
especially with Alex Ovechkin
filling the role of Russian hero
for Canadian fans to boo.
There’s a big quirk among
hockey players that you might
have noticed watching Tuesday’s
games. The majority of
Canadians shoot left (the blade
curves to the right) while the
majority of Americans shoot
right, Jeff Z. Klein writes in the
New York Times.
In women’s snowboard cross, it
was a heartbreaking end for
Lindsey Jacobellis — again.
Four years ago she had the gold
medal won until she fell,
recovering enough to take silver.
No such luck on Tuesday, when
Jacobellis landed poorly after the
first jump, veered off-course and
was disqualified. Yahoo’s Jeff
Passan recounts Jacobellis’s
disastrous attempt at earning
gold, and redemption.
The Vancouver Province’s Ed
Willes catches up with Steve
Rechtschaffner, who in the early
1990s invented snowboard cross,
a sport that’s developed into a
multimillion-dollar industry and
has a rabid following.
On a more sobering note, the
Journal’s David Crawford, Reed
Albergotti and Ian Johnson
examine how Vancouver came to
have the world’s fastest icy track
— the one on which luger Nodar
Kumaritashvili died last week.
The Games haven’t gone
smoothly for Vancouver:
weather delays, a lack of snow
on ski runs, malfunctioning arms
on the Olympic cauldron — you
get the picture. The Washington
Post’s Tracee Hamilton calls it “
the Olympic flame-out.”
The Toronto Star’s Dave
Feschuk comes to Vancouver’s
defense.
Much more Olympic coverage is
available here, including video of
Albergotti’s trying out of the
biathlon.* * *
The expected flurry of deals
before Thursday’s NBA trade
deadline already has begun. The
first trade sent Marcus Camby
from the Los Angeles Clippers to
the Portland Trail Blazers in
exchange for Travis Outlaw,
Steve Blake and cash. ESPN’s
Kevin Arnovitz crunches the
numbers to see how the deal will
play out for the Clippers.
At ESPN’s Daily Dime, J.A.
Adande and NBA analysts Jalen
Rose and Tim Legler debate
other possible trades.
Elsewhere in the NBA, Denver
Nuggets coach George Karl has
taken a leave to battle throat and
neck cancer, leading the Denver
Post’s Dave Krieger to write that
“the Nuggets’ season has just
gone from fun and games to life
and death. If there was any
question about their unity, there
isn’t anymore.”* * *
The old Los Angeles Rams once
traded 11 players to get their
hands on Les Richter, a
punishing linebacker who was
voted to the Pro Bowl eight
times in nine seasons. After his
football career, Richter played a
significant role in Nascar’s
success. Now almost 80 years
old, Richter walks with a hunch,
battles pain and has dementia.
But inexplicably, the man with
the firm handshake isn’t in the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, Jerry
Crowe writes in the Los Angeles
Times.* * *
Coaches Tim Whipple and
Bailey Harris have built
successful high-school basketball
programs in South Carolina,
combining for five state
championships in the past two
decades. While the coaches
admire each other’s program,
they remain bitter rivals and have
never developed a friendship
away from the game, the State’s
Ron Morris writes.* * *
If you’re of a certain vintage,
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collecting has seen much better
days, so the Topps Company is
trying to boost interest among 30
- to 60-year-olds through a new
promotion, one that includes a
new set of cards for 2010 called
“The Cards Your Mother Threw
Out,” Richard Sandomir writes
in the New York Times, and the
chance to snag Mickey Mantle’s
1952 rookie card.* * *
The life of an elite athlete
involves hours of grueling
workouts. That’s the way it is for
Aaron Heo, a Pennsylvania
speed skater whose workout
normally runs 3.5 hours and can
include up to 2,000 squats and
lots of 1,000-meter sprints. Heo,
whose goal is the Olympics, is
only 10 years old, Lenny
Bernstein writes in the
Washington Post.
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Men’s Figure Skating: Landing the Seth Wescott’s

Quad
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) silver in 2006), Frances Brian
Submitted at 2/16/2010 5:01:15 PM Joubert and the Czech Republics
Tomas Verner.
Tonight, the men take to the ice More of the men are likely to
in the first of their two figure attempt the quad when they skate
skating events. One thing to their long program on Thursday.
watch for: the quad. Associated Below, find a conversation we
Press Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko had about doing the quad with
practices. the beginning of the program. reigning U.S. gold-medal skater
As the WSJ reports, the quad is A handful of men will include J e r e m y A b b o t t . H i s s h o r t
a figure skating element thats so the quadruple toe loop jump as program for tonight doesnt list a
hard few thought it was even one of their three jumps that they quad on it, but he plans to do it at
possible until a few decades ago. can do in combination that is, some point in the competition.
It requires an athletic ability that instead of a triple-triple, theyll UPDATE: And Plushenko did it
rivals a slam dunk in basketball. do a quad-triple. If they hit - landing the quad toe loop plus
The quad matters in skating, e v e r y t h i n g e l s e , t h e y w i l l triple toe loop, and making it all
because judges award it more separate themselves tonight, said l o o k e a s y . T h e w h o l e
points - all part of an athletes Susan Chun, the editor of skating performance earned him 90.85
strategy in tallying up the highest blog Lifeskate.com, who has points 51 of which came from
possible score. But it is a been following all the action. his technical performance. Thats
gamble, because if a skater The skaters offer judges (and slightly under his record, but
attempts it and misses, he could media) a list of the elements that certainly sets him as the one to
end up losing even more points. t h e y p l a n o n d o i n g i n beat tonight so far.
The king of the quad is Russian competition, though theyre And a reader notes that
Evgeni Plushenko, 27, who was allowed to vary from it without Plushenko is not the Quad King
the 2006 Olympic champion. He penalty. Plushenko lists a quad that title goes to Timothy
retired after those Games, yet as part of his first element in Goebel. Indeed: we spoke to him
announced his comeback last competition. Other skaters that for our latest WSJ story on the
y e a r . H e s k n o w n f o r h i s list it for tonight (in order) quad, which you can read here.
confidence, and his ability to i n c l u d e S w e e d e n s A d r i a n
work the scoring system to his S c h u l t h e i s s , S w i t z e r l a n d s
advantage with lots of jumps as Stephanie Lambiel (who won
‘Magical’ Moment
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Winter Games.
Submitted at 2/16/2010 7:12:45 PM With a medal in pocket so early
on in the Games, Wescott now
After 20 years of snowboarding, plans to play the spectator and
the U.S.’s Seth Wescott says hes check out the mens and womens
only experienced a few moments halfpipe events as well as Alpine
of perfection while riding. He skiing. He said the weather
had one of those moments worked in his favor with freezing
Monday when he defended his temperatures hardening the snow
Olympic title and overtook to suit his style of riding, but
C a n a d a s M i k e R o b e r t s o n , with Monday night’s downpour,
winning gold in mens snowboard the outlook for his teammates
cross. wasn’t great.
Making that pass on Mike, I I think halfpipe is going to
couldnt hear the crowd, I couldnt struggle. Its really hard to make a
hear anything, he said earlier h a l f p i p e i n t h e s e s n o w
Tuesday. Everything you do just conditions… Best case scenario
works perfectly and its like every is if the temperatures can drop
day that youve put in your riding tonight, then things can freeze
and your training comes down to solid so theyve got a consistent
that one day and that one riding surface, he said. Hopefully
moment and just the best stuff the clouds will clear back out
comes out of you. tonight, the temps can drop so
He is and remains — the only that those guys can really put on
snowboarder to have won gold in a show.
s n o w b o a r d c r o s s s i n c e i t s Watch the interview:
introduction in the 2006 Turin

Fashion Week Survival Secrets From Garance Doré

by ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 8:58:00 PM
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74 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach Seven to Impact Men's

Mark McGwire arrives at spring Hockey's Medal Round
by Christopher Botta
training (FanHouse Main)
by Associated Press About an hour later, McGwire photographers and a dozen or Submitted at 2/17/2010 4:03:00 AM

(ESPN.com) was in uniform working with more reporters were on hand as Filed under: USA, Ice Hockey,
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:22:44 AM
several hitters in the batting cage McGwire worked with David Canada, Sweden, Russian
and got about 15 minutes extra Freese, Joe Mather and Skip Federation, Finland, Czech
Message from fivefilters.org: If time when manager Tony La Schumaker, the leadoff hitter. Republic By the end of Super
you can, please donate to the full Russa was a late arrival for a Schumaker, who has worked Sunday-- USA vs. Canada,
-text RSS service so we can staff meeting. with McGwire in the offseason Russia vs. Czech Republic,
c o n t i n u e d e v e l o p i n g i t . The 46-year-old McGwire since 2005, had been hoping that Sweden vs. Canada -- the true
McGwire's Return To MLB returned to baseball about a McGwire's arrival would not contenders in the Olympic
Begins McGwire's Return To month after admitting he used disrupt spring training for the NL hockey tournament will reveal
MLB Begins steroids and human growth Central champions. themselves. Here are seven
J U P I T E R , F l a . - - M a r k hormone during his time as "It's up to you guys, it's up to the players without big names who
McGwire is back in the major baseball's home run king in the media," he told The Associated could make a difference. Canadiens, but is still unheralded
leagues. late 1990s. Press. "If they want it to be a Corey Perry, Canada: One of the outside of Montreal. An Olympic
The St. Louis Cardinals' new The team has been optimistic circus it can be a circus, but it NHL's best least-known players, breakthrough by Plekanec is
batting instructor showed up that McGwire will be able to doesn't distract us." the 6-3, 210-pound two-way important for the Czechs, who
e a r l y o n W e d n e s d a y , t h e focus on his coaching duties, McGwire was given his old center for the Anaheim Ducks play Slovakia in the late game
reporting date for pitchers and though some have questioned his jersey. No. 25 hasn't been used creates matchup problems for Wednesday night.
catchers. McGwire arrived at assertion that steroids allowed since McGwire retired after the Canada's opponents. While the Jarkko Ruutu, Finland: A one-
Roger Dean Stadium toting a him to heal from injuries but did 2001 season. European teams will game plan man shift disturber, Ruutu has an
couple of bags and received not boost his power. His public Copyright 2010 by The for stopping Sidney Crosby, unique ability to grate. Even
applause from a handful of appearances have been carefully Associated Press Jarome Iginla and the rest of when they are warned about the
autograph seekers as he climbed m a n a g e d a n d i t w a s n ' t Five Filters featured article: Canada's high-powered stars, it Minnesota Wild forward in their
out of an SUV. immediately clear whether the Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: would not be surprising if Perry coach's pregame speeches, the
He asked a group of reporters, C a r d i n a l s p l a n n e d a n e w s PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, (pictured) pots a game-winner or game's great players are
"Where do I go?" and mistakenly c o n f e r e n c e f o r M c G w i r e . Term Extraction. two next week. susceptible to his "charms." If he
turned into the media room The interest in hearing more Tomas Plekanec, Czech stays under control -- a relative
before finding the correct door. from Big Mac is there: Three TV Republic: The shifty center is term for him -- Ruutu can
He didn't take any questions. crews, a half-dozen having the best season of his four provide Finland some much-
-year NHL career with the needed power play time.
E-reader News Edition
Oregon's LaMichael
James Arrested for
Strangulation, Assault
by FanHouse Newswire
(FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 4:22:00 AM
Oregon running back LaMichael
James was arrested by the
Springfield, Ore., police
department in the early hours of
Wednesday and charged with
strangulation, assault in the
fourth degree and menacing.
All three charges are
misdemeanors. The assault
charge could carry as much as a
year of jail time.
Further details of the arrest were
not immediately known.
James, a freshman from
Texarkana, Texas, rushed for
1,546 yards and 14 touchdowns
and helped lead Oregon to the
Rose Bowl. James' production
helped fill in for the absence of
LeGarrette Blount, the Ducks'
senior running back who missed
much of the season after sucker-
punching a Boise State player in
Oregon's season-opening loss.
BAYLOR'S
continued from page 75
Miller Still Uses Head
to Pay Cousin Tribute
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix)
Submitted at 2/16/2010 5:05:15 PM
U.S. goalie Ryan Miller stymied
23 Swiss hockey players and one
international sports federation
Tuesday. Reuters Ryan Miller’s
offending helmet.
On the way to beating the Swiss
3-1 in his team’s opening game,
the Buffalo Sabres star complied
only part way with the
International Olympic
Committee’s request that he
remove personal messages from
James was named the Pac-10's his helmet.
offensive freshman of the year. The mask, colored in red, white
The incident was first reportedand blue and with a muscular
by SportsbyBrooks.com. caricature of Uncle Sam, also
James is the latest Duck in legal
featured two messages on its
trouble. Star quarterback back. One, “Miller Time,” was
Jeremiah Masoli was named in a taped over. A second, “Matt
police report following the theft
Man,” a tribute to Miller’s
of two laptops from a fraternity
house at Oregon. The alleged
victim accused Masoli and
another teammate of the theft.
Baylor's Udoh a Bear in the Paint
by Terrance Harris (FanHouse
Follow Us on Twitter Friend Us Main)
on Facebook
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:45:00 AM
Filed under: Iowa State, Kansas,
Kansas State, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma State, Texas A&M,
Texas, Texas Tech, Big 12,
Missouri Baylor power forward
Ekpe Udoh has a simple warning
for those who dare drive the
basket or attempt to score in the to either alter your shot or I'm
paint against the Bears.
"When I get on that floor and if post player said to FanHouse
you come in that lane, I'm going
deceased cousin, remained.
Olympic rules preclude athletes
from displaying any messages of
advertising or propaganda during
competition. “Miller Time” was
meant on a play of the brewer’s
slogan, not an actual
advertisement. “There’s nothing
I’m trying to sell,” Miller said.
As for his cousin, Miller said, “I
just wanted to pay him tribute. I
don’t really see it as a big deal.
It’s that one thing. Everything
else, no problem.”
going to get it," the 6-foot-10
Sports/ 75
BAYLOR'S
continued from page 75
league mark, after rejecting nine
shots during Tuesday night's 88-
70 win over Texas Tech.
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recently.
Udoh, a transfer from Michigan,
has certainly made good on
promise this season as one of the
most lethal shot blockers in
college basketball. The junior set
a new Baylor record this past
Saturday when he recorded his
100th block shot of the season
against the Missouri Tigers. He's
also third on the Big 12 all-time
single season list and needs just
10 more rejections to set the
BAYLOR'S page 75
76 Game/ E-reader News Edition

Joyswag: Limited edition Resident

Evil 5 'Chibi Majini' shirt and Lost in
Nightmares DLC
by Justin McElroy (Joystiq) -shirt [ARV $20] and a "Lost in
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:00:00 PM Nightmares" DLC code [ARV
$5] -- please check your emails!
Not only is Capcom setting up • For a list of complete rules,
Resident Evil 5 fans with the click here.
"Lost In Nightmares" DLC this
week, it's also marking the What is Joyswag? Since we
occasion with 100 of these don't keep the games and
adorable "Chibi Majini" tees
(pictured). Better yet, through
merchandise we receive for
review or promotional purposes, Richard Garriott re-enters games
some sort of bizarre clerical
error, your buddies at Joystiq
it becomes"Joyswag," which is
passed along to our readers. For atmosphere with new social
have ended up with five of them, more info on our policy, click
plus download codes for the Lost here. media project: Portalarium
in Nightmares episode on your Continue reading Joyswag: by Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) Player, a browser plug-in that
platform of choice, PS3 or Xbox Limited edition Resident Evil 5 Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:18:00 PM allows games developed on a
360. 'Chibi Majini' shirt and Lost in number of platforms (i.e., not
If you want a closer look at the Nightmares DLC Known spacefarer and castle- just Flash) to work within the
precious little majini featured on Joyswag: Limited edition owner Richard Garriott isn't confines of social networking
the shirt, you'll find one after the Canada (excluding Quebec) Resident Evil 5 'Chibi Majini' going to let a relatively sites like Facebook and
break. Otherwise, to enter for • Limit 1 entry per person shirt and Lost in Nightmares unsuccessful MMORPG launch MySpace. Garriott is speaking
your chance to win: • This entry period ends at DLC originally appeared on keep him down. Lord British more about the young company's
2:00PM ET on Thursday, Joystiq on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 himself, along with former future at D.I.C.E. -- so we'll flag
• Leave a comment on this post F e b r u a r y 1 8 14:00:00 EST. Please see our NCSoft colleagues Dallas Snell, him down later today to find out
telling us the best way to defeat a • We'll randomly select five terms for use of feeds. Fred Schmidt and Stephen what gamers can expect from the
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• You must be 18 years or older receive a green "Chibi Majini" T Comments of a "broad-based" social media h o p e t o g e t s o m e t o t a l l y
and a resident of the US or company dubbed Portalarium. a w e s o m e s p a c e s t o r i e s . )
The outfit is working to first Richard Garriott re-enters games
offer "online game apps" and atmosphere with new social
then hopes to expand into "open media project: Portalarium
learning, open health, open originally appeared on Joystiq on
s c i e n c e / e n v i r o n m e n t , o p e n Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:18:00
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Battlefield: Bad Company

2 includes 'VIP code' for
free day-one DLC
Midway's XBLA classics removed by David Hinkle (Joystiq) Patrick Bach, describing a free
content delivery mechanism
from Marketplace Submitted at 2/17/2010 1:39:00 PM
similar to BioWare's Cerberus
John Riccitiello's " Project Ten Network. Also of note: the VIP
by Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) w o u l d a p p e a r t h a t t h e Nelson has quashed that theory, Dollar" endeavor -- in which EA code will be attached to your
Submitted at 2/17/2010 2:31:00 PM disappearing titles are the result tweeting, "No, it's not Game looks to combat used-game sales EA.com account, so make sure
of Warner Bros.' acquisition of room related." by offering free DLC goodies you keep potential hazards in
Several classic Midway games Midway last year. Warner Bros. This is not the first time that with new purchases -- has mind if you buy B ad Company
have been removed from Xbox now owns at least some of the XBLA content has been pulled another game marching under its 2 when it launches on March 2,
L i v e A r c a d e , i n c l u d i n g trademarks involved in the because of changing publisher b a n n e r : B a t t l e f i e l d : B a d 2010.
Cyberball 2072, Defender, removal from XBLA. relationships. Lost Cities was Company 2. Just like Mass [Thanks, Michael]
Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, You're not alone in suspecting removed from XBLA last year Effect 2, the game will ship with Battlefield: Bad Company 2
R o b o t r o n 2 0 8 4 , R o o t b e e r that some of the affected titles after licensing rights were lost in a code that enables access to free includes 'VIP code' for free day-
Tapper, Smash TV and Ultimate were pulled in anticipation of the Activision-Vivendi merger. DLC. The first batch of add-on one DLC originally appeared on
Mortal Kombat 3. The titles have Microsoft's upcoming Game M i d w a y ' s X B L A c l a s s i c s content for DICE's shooter will Joystiq on Wed, 17 Feb 2010
been pulled due to "publisher Room(where different versions removed from Marketplace be a set of new multiplayer 13:39:00 EST. Please see our
evolving rights and permissions," o f t h e s a m e g a m e s c o u l d originally appeared on Joystiq on maps, MTV Multiplayer reports. terms for use of feeds.
according to a Major Nelson presumably be made available Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:31:00 "In the future you will get more Read| Permalink| Email this|
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and can be re-downloaded by simply emulated Game Room use of feeds. VIP code," noted producer
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78 Game/ Fashion/ E-reader News Edition

Keeping up With Kim

Kardashian
by ELLE.com (ELLE News
Blog)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 9:38:50 AM

Kim Kardashian has been busy

this Fashion Week, launching
her eponymous fragrance at
Sephora, serving as one of the
celebrity models in the Heart
Truth’s Red Dress show, and
debuting a line for Bebe, on
which she collaborated with
sisters Kourtney and Khloe, at
Style 360 Tuesday morning. I
visited Kim backstage after the
show, which featured a heady
array of curve-hugging dresses,
playful rompers, and other
PSA: RE5 'Lost in Nightmares' DLC Kardashian-esque pieces, to chat
about the colorful line, her
ask where I got them. I used to
wear only designer stuff, and
out now for $5, Costume Pack for $2 favorite trend, and stepping
behind the camera for an
upcoming documentary series on
when I would tell my fans, it just
wasn’t affordable for them. So I
became a big fan of H&M and
by Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) PSN, respectively, will also theirs? Hmm?
celebrity branding—a subject to Zara and Bebe and all these
Submitted at 2/17/2010 12:52:00 PMlaunch at the 400/ $4.99 price Gallery: Resident Evil 5: Gold
which she’s no stranger. stores that have amazing stuff for
point and be joined by Costume Edition
—Erin Clements such inexpensive prices. I started
As expected, the first of two Pack 2 (180/ $1.99). Shortcut: Purchase Lost in
So, what made you decide to to really get into it and mix and
Resident Evil 5 expansion Finally, on March 9, Resident Nightmares, Costume Pack 1
design? match my pieces. And I just
episodes, "Lost in Nightmares," Evil 5: Gold Edition will hit and/or Resident Evil 5 (full game
I own a clothing store. I was a thought it was the perfect line to
has been released today on Xbox retail, combining all of the download)[via Xbox.com]
fashion stylist. I just thought that launch that our fans could
Live (tomorrow on PSN) for the aforementioned DLC (on the PSA: RE5 'Lost in Nightmares'
this was definitely the next step. actually purchase.
unterrifying price of 400($5). An PS3 disc; through vouchers in DLC out now for $5, Costume
It’s always been a dream and a What was your inspiration for
additional Costume Pack, also Xbox 360 copies) with the Pack for $2 originally appeared
goal to design, and Bebe gave us the collection?
the first of two, has hit the original game for $50; a modest on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Feb 2010
that vehicle. I think we all wanted something
Marketplace as well, for 180($2), discount for anyone who didn't 12:52:00 EST. Please see our
Why did you want to work with that was sexy, something that
and joins the free Extra Figures pick up the original RE5 when it terms for use of feeds.
Bebe—do you shop there? represented us. And I think we
DLC that appeared on Monday. dropped last March. So, if you're Read| Permalink| Email this|
I’ve always worn their stuff. My did the perfect job, because it’s
Capcom has also confirmed that not too interested in piloting air Comments
stylists would bring me pieces all wearable but sexy.
the second episode, " Desperate ships and wranglin' chocobos
the time, especially sample Now that you have a fragrance
Escape," previously dated for that week, Chris and Sheva have
pieces that weren’t out, and I
March 3 and 4 on XBLM and got your back. Will you have KEEPING page 79
always loved it. Everyone would
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KEEPING
continued from page 78

and a clothing line, what’s next? What’s your favorite trend?

I’m executive producing my
own show. It’s called The
SPINdustry, and it’s a behind-the
-scenes look at PR and celeb
branding. I think it’ll be a really
cool gig to be behind the scenes
instead of in front of the camera.
I wanted to take on a new role.
What shows top your list this
week?
You know what? I’ve only gone
to the Red Dress show and this.
But I’m a huge fan of Alexander
Wang and Marc Jacobs, and I
always go to Tracy Reese.
Flickroom: Chat, browse, upload, share!
I still love the one-shoulder
look. I think it’s sexy without
showing too much. And a
structured shoulder—but not too
big. I’m just a fan of sexiness.
( Front-row footage from the
show, taken with my nifty new
Vado HD camera)
Photo: Getty Images
Art.view: Out from the ashes
(The Economist: Daily
columns)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 5:10:59 AM
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Art.view Recent sales of
contemporary art reveal a vibrant
yet capricious rebound
Feb 17th 2010 | From The
Economist online
The contemporary art business
has bounced back faster than
many expected, but the market
still lacks the coherent drive of
the boom. Whereas evening sales
in 2007 had the exhilaration of a
Formula One race, last week's
contemporary sales at Sotheby's,
Christie's and Phillips had a
rambling feel, as if bidders were
driving cross country in a wide
range of vehicles.
Sotheby's kicked off the week
with an evening sale on February
10th that brought in £54.1m
($84.5m), the second-highest
total for a February
contemporary auction and three
times more than last year's paltry
£17.9m. Of the 79 lots on offer,
more than half came from the
highly credible but hitherto
uncommercial collection of
Gerhard and Anna Lenz, who
have concentrated on a branch of
apocalyptically minimal art
called “Zero”. The artworks,
which Sotheby's catalogue
associated with “a grey
emptiness... a cultural cemetery
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and a knowledge vacuum”, were

by Cris Stoddard (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:06:34 AM
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Flickroom is an application that
brings Flickr to your desktop,
allowing you to browse and
search photographs of yours,
your contacts, and the
Flickrverse. Your photos never
looked better against a black
background! Once you
authenticate Flickroom to your
account, you can not only
manage your own content but
you can also leave comments on
great photos or make them your
favorites.
But one of the neatest things
about Flickroom is that you can
chat, live, with other Flickr
members while you’re viewing
fantastic content!
There’s more, too. This
application allows you to upload
2 Twitter, or post to Facebook.
This application runs on Mac,
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of other features including
upcoming events, language
support, the world map, access to
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and real-time notifications.
There’s a companion website,
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not what you'd normally think of
as surefire auction lots.
Nevertheless, most of them were
met with enthusiastic bidding
and 19 works achieved record
prices. Sotheby's European
chairman of contemporary art,
Cheyenne Westphal, explained
that buyers “took great comfort
in the time, care and
consideration invested by Mr and
Mrs Lenz in assembling such a
coherent group.”
One historic lot was a rare set of
three paintings by Roman
Opalka, who has conceived his
oeuvre since 1965 as a single
continuous work in which he
paints white numbers in order
from one to infinity on
consecutive, mostly grey
canvases; each new painting

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starts the numbers where he last
left off (see slideshow below).
The “1-” paintings were initially
offered as three separate lots, but
the artist intervened after hearing
about the sale and requested they
be sold as a triptych. The buyer
of the Opalkas told The
Economist that the “marriage
value” of the three works was
worth the £713,250 he paid.
“Opalka is one of the great artists
of the conceptual era,” he said.
“Three consecutive paintings tell
the story of the incredible beauty
that comes out of this intense
labour.”
A 1961 “Fire” painting by Yves
Klein entitled “F 88”, which
features voids in the shape of
naked women, was the most
expensive lot of the Lenz
consignment, reaching £3.3m. It
was bought by a Swiss collector
sitting in the room, who also
acquired Klein’s “MG 25” for
£1.7m and Lucio Fontana's
copper relief, “Concetto
Spaziale, New York 26”, for
£3.1m (see slideshow). Loic
Gouzer, a contemporary art
specialist at Sotheby's, enthused,
“Owning a Klein is like owning
a fragment of another planet.”
No contemporary evening sale is
complete these days without a
Peter Doig. Sotheby's offered
“Saint Anton (Flat Light)”, a
large-scale snowy
mountainscape, consigned by
James Van Damme, who had
acquired the painting from the
Victoria Miro Gallery for
£12,000 in 1996. The lot sold for
£2.84m to an anonymous
telephone bidder. When asked
why he was selling, Mr Van
Damme admitted that he was
keen to buy a Trinidadian
summer scene by the artist,
adding that “Sotheby's did an
amazing job convincing me to
sell.” Many were surprised,
including Mr Van Damme, when
Mr Doig's “Concrete Cabin West
Side” (see slideshow), from an
earlier, more art-historically
relevant series, sold for
less—£2.1m—at Christie's the
following night. Rumour has it
that Roman Abramovich
psyched out the competition; no
one wants to bid against him.
On February 11th Christie's sold
90% of their 51 lots, bringing in
a total of £39.1m—a nice step up
from the £8.4m raised in the
equivalent sale last year. Lot 1
raised an eyebrow or two:
Matthew Day Jackson's 2007
depiction of Richard
Buckminster Fuller in
psychedelic glasses (see
slideshow) soared over its high
estimate of £40,000 to sell for
£601,250 to Laurence Graff, a
diamond dealer, sitting in the
front row. Mr Graff had not
heard of the young artist until he
received Christie's catalogue, but
he was “knocked out” when he
saw the work up close. “I'm a
jeweller. I know about execution
and that painting is flawless,”
said Mr Graff. “I didn't care what
I paid.” Mr Graff went on to
purchase a large red “Dollar
Sign” painting by Andy Warhol
and also the cover lot: Yves
Klein's “Anthropométrie (ANT
5)”, a wood panel on which a
woman's figure is outlined in the
artist’s signature blue pigment,
created as part of a series of six
just before the artist's death at
age 34 in 1962 (see slideshow).
Other triumphant lots included
Klein's “Relief Eponge Or (RE
47II)”, which sold for £5.9m, the
highest price of the week; Martin
Kippenberger's “Fliegender
Tanga (Flying Tanga)”, an early
five-canvas extravaganza, which
fetched £2.6m, the second-
highest price ever paid for the
artist at auction; and Alighiero
Boetti's “Onomino”, a red pen
“Biro” work from 1973, which
achieved a record £1m for
Boetti. As Francis Outred, the
director of Christie's postwar and
contemporary art department in
Europe, saw it, “We've seen
growth in the market when we're
supposed to have been in
recession. The prices of
European postwar artists are
catching up with their American
counterparts.”
Following these sales was one at
Phillips de Pury & Company on
Friday night. At the end of the
week, one needs some
entertainment, and Simon de
Pury, a flamboyant auctioneer
with a rogue sense of humour,
always accommodates. He
hammered out £6.1m worth of
art, mostly by younger artists
selling for under £100,000. The
top lots all sold for over
£500,000—including two Jean-
Michel Basquiat paintings, a
Donald Judd wall sculpture, an
exquisite little Gerhard Richter,
“Abstrakes Bild”, and a
fabulously perverse George
Condo painting called “Father
and Son” (see slideshow). Back
in 2008 Phillips was thought to
be in a precarious financial state,
and in 2009 the company
weathered some shaky sales, so
it was good to see a sell-through
rate of 86% by lot, 92% by
value. After the sale, Henry
Allsopp, who went from being a
private dealer to a senior
specialist at Phillips just a month
ago, said earnestly, “I think the
market wants a third auction
house—a cooler place where
contemporary art is the core
business.”
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peaking and pay falling at
Europe’s banks
Feb 17th 2010 | From The
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TWO YEARS ago banks began
to include in their results
announcements tables meant to
show that their exposure to toxic
securities was under control. The
crisis has moved on: now one
European financial firm’s
presentation includes a slide that
pleads, “limited exposure to
sovereign debt [of] Portugal,
Ireland, Greece and Spain”. Yet
whatever Europe’s
macroeconomic woes, there is
actually a more optimistic
picture emerging from its
lenders. While the view of some
forecasters, including the IMF,
has been that European banks
were sitting on a bad debt time-
bomb, the evidence from fourth-
quarter results is that the pace at
which loans are souring has
peaked.
Many of the big firms that had
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Argentina and the Falklands: Oil and troubled

King Report: Greek
waters Crisis Turns into a
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Feb 17th 2010 | BUENOS of staff, announced that ships wells for it and Rockhopper, home, even if few Argentines • Due to populace pressure
AIRES | From The Economist sailing between Argentina and another British outfit. Most will believe that it will achieve much. against bailouts, politicians are
print edition the Falklands would henceforth be in the north Falklands basin, When Mr Kirchner suspended proposing draconian cuts for
EACH year a well-rehearsed require a permit. Earlier the with perhaps one or two in the charter flights to the islands and Greece with vague promises of
performance takes place at the government barred a ship which south Falklands basin, which has banned Argentine scientists from aid.
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that Britain’s sovereignty over manufacturer of the pipes, said of whether the Falklands are to presidential election next year, dissuade Greece from accepting
the islands it calls the Malvinas they were destined for the become the Saudi Arabia with the only thing that will pour oil an EU bailout.
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integrity demands that they be Argentina’s president, said she will be doubly galling for comments the EU-demanded socialism cuts.
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• The impetuous creation of the
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reported full year results by
Wednesday February 17th,
including BNP Paribas, showed
a sequential quarterly decline in
bad-debt provisions. Even for
those that did not, for example
Britain’s Barclays, bad-debt
charges came in lower than
expected. In almost all cases
banks’ bosses made soothing
sounds about bad debts reaching
a peak in 2009. This picture even
appears to extend to the dodgiest
corner of banks’ loan books:
eastern Europe. Bad-debt
charges there remain high. But
from Belgium’s KBC to the
banks of Sweden and Norway,
most firms active in the region
hinted that the pace at which
loans are turning sour is slowing,
even if there is still a big stock of
rubbish to clean up. If these
suggestions are correct, then
overall loss rates on eastern
European loans will be far below
the 10% or so the IMF projected
during the depths of the crisis
last year.
If their balance sheets are
looking cleaner there is little
sense of business as usual at
Europe’s banks, particularly with
regard to compensation.
Barclays’ investment-banking
unit, which has taken a fairly
unapologetic attitude towards
pay until now, paid out 38% of
its revenue, down from 44% in
2008. The bank’s two top
executives also declined any
bonus for the second year
running. BNP’s investment-
banking unit went further,
cutting compensation to 28% of
revenues from a usual rate of
about 40%. At those banks
which got bail outs, the medicine
is far harsher. ING has so far cut
its banking unit’s assets by a
fifth from their peak, and is
preparing for a full separation of
its banking and insurance arms.
KBC aims to shrink its risk-
adjusted assets by a quarter and
is giving up some of its
international activities.
The overall result of lower pay
and bad debts and the closure of
flaky business divisions should
be to boost profits. What is
notable is how little of those
profits are being channeled into
dividends. BNP is distributing
32% of its profits for 2009, but
has given shareholders the option
of receiving those dividends in
shares, which conserves capital.
Barclays is paying out less than
5% of its profits in cash.
Part of this conservatism reflects
the continuing uncertainty over
the ongoing overhaul of the
banks’ capital regime, dubbed
Basel 3. Most banks are running
with core capital ratios of 8-10%,
but the changes are likely to
penalise trading assets and force
through a tougher definition of
what counts as core equity.
Banks will also be nervous about
bad debts. These tend to fall
quite quickly—Simon Samuels,
an analyst at Barclays Capital,
reckons that since 1980
European banks’ impairment
losses typically drop to about
half of their highest level within
a year after that peak is reached.
But there is still enough
uncertainty out there to make
banks extremely cautious. While
there is speculation that
supposedly risk-free
governments might default, that
conservatism looks merited
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the reunification of Germany)
• The lack of an enforcement
mechanism for Maastricht
violations
• Greece as the guinea pig for
future European crisis
• Sovereigns have been
concealing the truth about their
deficits, financial & economic
conditions.
• Sovereigns will divert attention
from their venality by
conducting an inquisition of
speculators.
Reuters: Eurozone gives Greece
30 days to show good on deficit
… Greece had 30 days to prove
its plans were off to a convincing
start and he said that Athens
could count on unspecified
support if that was not the case
and markets refused to give it
breathing space…. Greece’s
Socialist government is fighting
an uphill struggle to get its
finances in order, restore
credibility in other capitals and
financial markets alike, and
prove that the data it publishes
on its economy is no longer what
Swedish finance minister
Anders Borg described as
“basically fraudulent.”…
http://www.reuters.com/article/id
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The Strait Times: European
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Jean-Claude Trichet castigated
the Greek government for its
accounting and said other
European nations would strictly
monitor the recovery plan put in
place by the socialist government
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gross domestic product and debt
of about 300 billion euros
(S$577 billion) is now 113 per
cent of GDP.
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BN: Greece should lose voting
privileges in the European Union
if it gets a bailout from the 27-
nation bloc, said the head of the
business caucus of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
Christian Democratic Union…
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Last month, we noted that the
St. Louis Fed had declared in
their charts that the recession
was over ( Dude, Where’s My
Recession Bar?).
Now, it appears that with the
latest G17 release on Industrial
Production, the Federal Reserve
is making the same assumption.
They make note of this referring
to several charts (below) stating:
“The shaded areas are periods of
business recession as defined by
the National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER).
The last shaded area begins with
the peak as defined by the NBER
and ends at the trough of a 3
month moving average of
manufacturing IP.”
They are referring to the
technical definition of
contractions (recessions) as
starting “at the peak of a
business cycle and end at the
trough (as defined by the
NBER).
Ron Griess observed the 3
month MA of the
MANUFACTURING index:>
Hence, as the following charts
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Recession over as of Q2’s end,
based upon industrial production
bottom.> Industrial production,
capacity, and utilization
Industrial production and
capacity utilization
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Toy makers at fair
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The toy industry is betting on
ninja hamsters, hidden cameras,
a dancing mouse, and toy
versions of e-readers and smart
phones to drive sales in 2010.
The industry this week is
showing off the toys it hopes will
be Christmas bestsellers at the
107th annual New York Toy
Fair, held at the Jacob K. Javits
Convention Center. The event,
which began Sunday and runs
through Wednesday, features
displays by more than 1,000 toy
companies and is expected to
draw 32,000 visitors over the
four days.
The mood at the show Monday
was one of subdued optimism, as
manufacturers and retailers
congratulated each other on a
better-than-expected fourth
quarter. Toy sales were down 0.8
percent for the year, at $21.47
billion, but there was a sales
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surge in the fourth quarter and
the number of toys sold was up 4
percent for the quarter over the
prior year period, according to
research firm The NPD Group.
"We're feeling pretty good about
2010," said Neil Friedman,
president of Mattel Brands. "We
have a lot of great toys."
The companies at the show
range from the nation's largest
toy makers, such as Hasbro Inc.
and Mattel Inc., to companies
including South Hackensack-
based Scribblemats, which sells
reusable coloring mats and other
activity toys.
Scribblemats owner/"Chief
Scribbler" Andi Thea said she
also is feeling optimistic about
2010, noting that some of the
stores she sells to have told her
they believe the worst of the
downturn is behind them.
The ability of toy manufacturers
to accurately predict what kids
want, and what parents are
willing to buy, has a direct
impact on Wayne-based Toys
"R" Us Inc., the world's largest
toy-focused retail chain, with
annual sales of $13 billion. Years
when there are a number of hot,
in-demand toys tend to be good
years for Toys "R" Us.
In 2009, Toy "R" Us bet
correctly that Zhu Zhu Pets, a
battery-operated hamster toy
priced at less than $10, would be
a hit. This year, the company that
made them, Cepia LLC, unveiled
a Kung Zhu line of battling
hamsters designed to appeal
more to boys.
Toys "R" Us won't comment on
where it is placing its biggest
bets this year, but Chief
Executive Officer Jerry Storch
said in a pre-Toy Fair interview
that he believes "there are many
strong product lines going into
2010." Storch and the Toy "R"
Us buyers have been seeing
prototypes of this year's line
since last year.
"We always make a lot of
educated bets on what products
are going to sell and what's going
to be hot," Storch said. "We get
it right more often than our
competitors because we're so
focused on the toy market."
A game changer in the toy
world this year is the loss of the
Sesame Street toy license by
Mattel. That license was
transferred to rival Hasbro,
meaning that this year for the
first time in more than a decade
Mattel will not be producing a
new version of an Elmo doll.
Instead, Mattel is pinning its
hopes for a hot preschool toy on
"Dance Star" Mickey, a doll that
talks and dances to five different
songs. The company brought
"Dancing with the Stars" winner
Donny Osmond to Toy Fair to
promote the toy and to give a
costumed Mickey character some
dance lessons.
Mattel also is promoting the iXL
"smart" toy for pre-schoolers, a
device that looks a bit like a mini
-iPad and lets toddlers read
electronic books, listen to music
uploaded by their parents, view
photos and play games. Another
company, VTech, has two
similar toys — Flip, an e-reader-
like device, and Mobigo, a
device that looks like a cellphone
with a qwerty keyboard, and can
be used to play games.
Manufacturers also are betting
on toys with hidden cameras.
Jakks Pacific Inc. is making a
spy watch that allows kids to
secretly record video and audio.
Mattel has a version of Barbie
with a video camera inside what
looks like a necklace.
The large toy manufacturers
come to Toy Fair mostly for the
media — to start building buzz
about their toys to boost sales.
For smaller companies that sell
to independent retailers, it is a
chance to meet some of their
customers face to face. "I've had
customers come up and hug me
and thank me for helping them
have a good season," said Eric
King, whose Saddle River–based
company is the U.S. distributor
of the Shred Sled, a dual-deck
skateboard. Store owners told
him that while "selling was
harder than it used to be, they
met their plans and they were
encouraged," King said.
Robert Kramer, who heads the
Closter-based U.S. distribution
company for Smart Trike, a
combination stroller and tricycle,
said Monday his booth has been
"very busy." One benefit of
exhibiting at the fair, he said, is
feedback from people walking
the show floor. "The people here
are all toy specialists," he said.
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Although a lot of people have
been saying products like the
iPad and other tablets have no
place in the market, Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu (DTT)
predicts they'll be hot items over
the next 18 months and could
spell the end for e-readers.
In a new report about
technology trends for 2010, DTT
researchers note this goes against
"consensus expectations" but the
authors say tablets may be "just
right" for many users.
Over the next 18 months, the
report's authors predict other
tablets similar to the iPad will be
released, as well as tablets that
will be repurposed with
enhanced processing and
software.
"They will aim to offer an
appealing balance of form and
function," the report says, adding
some analysts estimate 12-month
tablet sales from the launch date
will exceed $1 billion.
One consequence, the report
says, is wireless carriers will
need to prepare for users who
want to stream bigger, higher-
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definition media files.
As well, more powerful wireless
routers will be needed, as it's
expected the tablets "would be
much more useful than a phone
or PC for casual web browsing."
When tablets, or netTabs, are
launched, it may also mean e-
readers will fall to the wayside.
"The most vulnerable to netTab
success may be the standalone e-
reader market. Reading e-books
on a tablet would be similar to
using e-reader, but the added
value of a colour screen and
ability to display video could
make the multifunction netTab
the 8-inch device of choice," the
report says.
DTT presented its ninth annual
predictions report Wednesday at
Newfoundland and Labrador's
Memorial University.
Global managing partner of
technology, media and
telecommunications, Jolyon
Barker, says the company might
not get everything right, but it
does keep a close eye on
emerging trends.
"We never include a prediction
only because it will come true in
the next year. Rather, our focus
is on identifying potential 'black
swans' whose impact could have
major, strategic ramifications for
companies in the sector," Barker
said in the foreword of the
report. "As a result, each
prediction is designed to start or
stoke a further conversation ‹ not
to stop it.
"We are never likely to be 100%
right."
Researches admit one trend in
this year's report could take five
or 10 years to come to fruition.
The effort to reduce carbon
dioxide emissions will likely
continue with electric cars, and
more efficient airplanes, but the
making of cement should also be
looked at, the report says.
"Cement represents about 5% of
global emissions ‹ even greater
than that of the aviation sector,"
the report says.
The reason is calcination, the
process used to make cement that
entails baking limestone at up to
1,500 C.
Heating the limestone requires
carbon-emitting fuel and as the
limestone burns, more carbon
dioxide is released.
Considering the worldwide
demand for cement in 2010 is
expected to reach two billion
tonnes, creating a green cement
would help control emissions.
"The potential benefits of carbon
-negative cement are enormous,
but they are likely to be realized
over a five- to 10-year period,"
the report says. "It may be a
while before the world's
skyscrapers are constructed of
carbon-negative cement."
Sidewalks and driveways are
more likely to be first, the report
says.
"A building material may seem
too basic to merit inclusion in a
document devoted to making
predictions about technology.
But advances in technology are
not limited to faster lasers,
smaller chips and flying robots,"
the report says.
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Vermonters, Least
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PRINCETON, NJ --
Mississippians were the most
frequent churchgoers in the
nation in 2009, as was the case in
2008, with 63% of residents
attending weekly or almost every
week. Nine of the top 10 states in
church attendance are in the
South; the only non-Southern
state is Utah, with 56% frequent Columbia in 2009. Gallup began
attendance. At the other end of tracking state-level church
the spectrum, 23% of Vermont attendance on a daily basis in
residents attend church 2008, asking respondents how
frequently, putting it at the often they "attend church,
bottom of the list of churchgoing synagogue, or mosque -- at least
states. Other states at the bottom once a week, almost every week,
of the church attendance list are about once a month, seldom, or
in either New England or the never." Frequent church
West. attendance for the purpose of this
"Church attendance levels are analysis is defined as those who
widely dispersed across the report attending at least once a
states, with the highest levels week or almost every week.
generally occurring in the South Nationally, 41.6% of all
and the Midwest, and the lowest Americans in 2009 said they
in the Northeast and the West." attended church this often.
Gallup's compilation of church Church attendance levels are
attendance data is based on more widely dispersed across the
than 350,000 interviews states, with the highest levels
conducted among national generally occurring in the South
adults, aged 18 and older, across
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and the Midwest, and the lowest
in the Northeast and the West.
Nine of the top 10 states in
church attendance -- Mississippi,
Alabama, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas,
North Carolina, Georgia, and
Texas -- are in the South. Utah,
with its high concentration of
churchgoing Mormons, provides
a Western exception. Six of the
lowest church-attending states
are in New England -- Vermont,
New Hampshire, Maine,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
and Connecticut -- while the
others are in the West: Nevada,
Hawaii, Oregon, Alaska, and
Washington.
Changes in Church Attendance
From 2008 to 2009
Overall, church attendance was
stable between 2008 and 2009,
with average church attendance
at 40.9% in 2008 and 41.6% in
2009. Reflecting this stability,
most individual states exhibited
little change from 2008 to 2009.
Five states -- Louisiana (+5),
North Dakota (+4), Alaska (+3),
Montana (+3), and Mississippi
(+3) -- saw an uptick of more
than two points in frequent
church attendance from 2008 to
2009. Three states saw a drop of
more than two points: South
Dakota, Wyoming, and Rhode
Island (all with 3-point
decreases).
Bottom Line
Despite the generally high
degree of geographic mobility in
the U.S. in recent decades, and
the commonality of experience
brought about by exposure to
mass media and the Internet,
substantial state differences in
churchgoing behavior persist.
Well over half of all residents in
a number of Southern states and
Utah report attending religious
services weekly or almost every
week, compared to below a third
who attend frequently in New
England and several Western
states. At the extremes, the range
in average church attendance
between Mississippi and
Vermont is 40 points.
One explanation for these wide
differences in religious behavior
is the substantial differences by
state in religious identity. The
Southern states have high
proportions of residents who
identify as Protestant, non-
Catholic Christians -- faith
traditions with high average
church attendance levels.
Residents of New England, the
Northwest, and other Western
states are more likely to have no
religious identity, usually
associated with low church
attendance. And the majority of
Utah residents are Mormons, a
group with the highest average
church attendance level of any
major religious group in the
country.
Ethnic and racial differences
may account for some of the
state-by-state differences in
churchgoing. Black Americans
have the highest church-
attendance averages of any major
racial or ethnic group, and
Southern states have a relatively
high proportion of blacks in their
populations.
There also may be cultural
differences across states that are
related to religious behavior.
These differences may be so
strong that they help shape the
behavior of newly arrived
residents. Or, certain types of
people may be attracted to
certain types of states.
Individuals who are attracted to
Vermont and Alaska, by way of
example, may be the types of
people who are less inclined to
participate in religious services
than are those attracted to
Southern or Midwestern states.
Gallup's "State of the States"
series reveals state-by-state
differences on political,
economic, and well-being
measures Gallup tracks each day.
New stories will be released
throughout the month of
February.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone
interviews with more than
353,849 national adults, aged 18
and older, conducted in 2009 as
part of the Gallup-Healthways
Well-Being Index. For results
based on the total sample of
national adults, one can say with
95% confidence that the
maximum margin of sampling
error is ±1 percentage point.
The margin of sampling error
for most states is ±1 to ±2
percentage points, but is as high
as ±4 points for smaller states
such as Wyoming, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Delaware, and
Hawaii.
Interviews are conducted with
respondents on landline
telephones (for respondents with
a landline telephone) and cellular
phones (for respondents who are
cell phone only).
In addition to sampling error,
question wording and practical
difficulties in conducting surveys
can introduce error or bias into
the findings of public opinion
polls.
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U.S. Wargamers Wrap
Up Massive Cyberattack
Drill: "We Are Not
Prepared"
by Jeremy Hsu (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:00:50 AM
Washington insiders recently
sweated out a real-time war
game where a cyberattack
crippled cell phone service,
Internet and even electrical grids
across the U.S. The unscripted,
dynamic simulation allowed
former White House officials
and the Bipartisan Policy Center
to study the problems that might
arise during a real cyberattack
emergency, according to
Aviation Week's Ares Defense
Blog.
The Policy Center's vice-
president reports""The general
consensus of the panel today was
that we are not prepared to deal
with these kinds of attacks."
The nightmarish scenario that
unfolded represented a worst-
case example. As former
secretary of Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff noted, many
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Can We Dispose of Radioactive Waste in
Volcanoes?
by Bjorn Carey (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 11:44:35 AM
Paging Frodo
Dumping all our nuclear waste
in a volcano does seem like a
neat solution for destroying the
roughly 29,000 tons of spent
uranium fuel rods stockpiled
around the world. But there's a
critical standard that a volcano
would have to meet to properly
dispose of the stuff, explains
Charlotte Rowe, a volcano
geophysicist at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. And that
standard is heat. The lava would
have to not only melt the fuel
rods but also strip the uranium of
its radioactivity."Unfortunately,"
Rowe says, "volcanoes just aren't
very hot."
Lava in the hottest volcanoes
tops out at around 2,400F.
(These tend to be shield
volcanoes, so named for their
relatively flat, broad profile. The
Hawaiian Islands continue to be
formed by this type of volcano.)
It takes temperatures that are tens
of thousands of degrees hotter
than that to split uranium's
atomic nuclei and alter its
radioactivity to make it inert,
Rowe says. What you need is a
thermonuclear reaction, like an
atomic bomb-not a great way to
dispose of nuclear waste.
Volcanoes aren't hot enough to
melt the zirconium (melting
point 3,371) that encases the
fuel, let alone the fuel itself: The
melting point of uranium oxide,
the fuel used at most nuclear
power plants, is 5,189. The
liquid lava in a shield volcano
pushes upward, so the rods
probably wouldn't even sink very
deep, Rowe says. They wouldn't
sink at all in a stratovolcano, the
most explosive type, exemplified
by Washington's Mount St.
Helens. Instead, the waste would
just sit on top of the volcano's
hard lava dome-at least until the
pressure from upsurging magma
became so great that the dome
cracked and the volcano erupted.
And that's the real problem.
A regular lava flow is hazardous
enough, but the lava pouring out
of a volcano used as a nuclear
storage facility would be
extremely radioactive.
Eventually it would harden,
turning that mountain's slopes
into a nuclear wasteland for
decades to come. And the danger
would extend much farther. "All
volcanoes do is spew stuff
upward," Rowe says. "During a
big eruption, ash and gas can
shoot six miles into the air and
afterward circle the globe several
times. We'd all be in serious
trouble."
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Power-Harvesting
Prosthetic Uses Every
Footstep to Power the
Next
by Jeremy Hsu (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 2/17/2010 10:51:24 AM
Prosthetic users typically spend
more energy walking on their
artificial feet than most people,
because the devices cannot
replicate the force of a living
ankle pushing off the ground.
Now researchers have created a
new prosthetic foot that
recaptures the mechanical energy
between steps.
Test subjects who used a
conventional prosthetic foot
spent 23 percent more metabolic
energy, as opposed to when they
walked on two normal feet. One
engineer likened the experience
to walking with an extra 30
pounds weighing him down.
But the new prosthetic device
manages to cut down the energy
usage to just 14 percent more
than normal. Keep in mind that
these prosthetic feet are for
everyday use, as opposed to the
specialized devices used by
athletes.
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cyberattacks can be stopped if
individual cell phone or Internet
users simply follow the best
practices and use the right tools.
Similarly, another participant
pointed out that private Internet
companies would not sit idly by
as a virus ran amok.
A collapse of power across the
U.S. also only took place when
the simulation brought in factors
such as high demand during the
summer, a hurricane that had
damaged power supply lines, and
coordinated bombings that
accompanied the cyberattack and
subsequent failure of the
Internet.
Still, the war game highlighted
crucial issues about the
government's own reliance upon
communications that might go
down during a real-life scenario.
One of the biggest problems was
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"We know there's an energy
penalty in using an artificial
foot," said Art Kuo, a biomedical
and mechanical engineer at the
University of Michigan. "We're
almost cutting that penalty in
half."
The energy-recycling foot
captures dissipated energy
naturally. A microcontroller then
tells the foot precisely when to
apply the energy so that it
enhances the power of the ankle
push-off for the next step. The
saved energy means that the
prosthetic device only uses less
than 1 Watt of electricity
how the President ought to
respond to a situation that caused
damage like warfare but lacked
an immediately identifiable
foreign adversary. Smaller-scale
cyberattacks have already
complicated real-world
diplomacy, such as the alleged
Chinese cyberattacks on Google
and other U.S. companies.
Ares Defense Blog questioned a
curious missing element from the
simulation, in that there was no
mention of what happened to
phone or Internet service in the
rest of the world. Surely a nation
that decided to launch
cyberattacks against the U.S.
would take safeguards to protect
its own crucial communication
services, which would possibly
help U.S. officials narrow down
the list of suspects.
Another question seemed more
provided by a small portable
battery.
Other prosthetic feet store and
return mechanical energy, but
don't allow for the precise timing
that applies the recycled energy
to the ankle push-off. Devices
that try to provide a boost push-
off also typically require motors
and large batteries.
The University of Michigan
team has already begun testing
the foot on amputees at the
Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, and hope to
commercialize the device for
more widespread use among
mundane but equally important -
- how would the government
activate the National Guard with
cell phone service down?
The Pentagon's DARPA science
lab recently pushed for a"Cyber
Genome Program" that could
trace digital fingerprints to
cyberattack culprits. But
identifying whether a cyber
attack came from individual
civilians, shadowy hacker
associations or government cyber
-warriors has proven tricky in the
meantime.
[via Ares Defense Blog]
military veterans returning from
Iraq and Afghanistan. We're
looking forward to this and
future prosthetics that not only
recycle mechanical energy, but
also harvest it as electrical
energy to power our iPads.
[via ScienceDaily]
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Stray Hydrogen Atoms
Become Deadly for Starships
Traveling at Light Speed
by Jeremy Hsu (Popular 99.999998 percent of the speed
Science - New Technology, of light. That's as much fun for
Science News, The Future
humans as standing in front of
Now) the proton beam created by the
Submitted at 2/17/2010 8:28:25 AM Large Hadron Collider,
according to William Edelstein, a
You guys put up shields, right? physicist at Johns Hopkins
Science fiction writers may have University.
to rethink how their starship Edelstein added that the
crews survive travel near or radiation dose would reach
beyond the speed of light. Even 10,000 sieverts within a second;
the occasional hydrogen atom the fatal radiation dose for
floating in the interstellar void humans is just 6 sieverts. He
would become a lethal radiation p r e d i c t e d that any
beam that would kill human extraterrestrials who might have
crews in mere seconds and created starships capable of such
destroy a spacecraft's electronics, high speeds might have died
New Scientist reports. upon their inaugural voyages,
Just a few stray wisps of a n d N e w S c i e n t i s t a d d s a
hydrogen gas -- fewer than two preliminary funeral note for
h y d r o g e n a t o m s p e r c u b i c Kirk, Spock and the rest of Star
centimeter on average -- would Trek's USS Enterprise crew
translate into 7 teraelectron volts
for a starship crew traveling at STRAY page 89
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traveling at warp speeds. that pickle. Hopefully some of

But hold on a second. The warp our early shield technology
speed concept of Star Trek might translate into the more
supposedly involves robust version by the time
manipulating space-time, so that humans become true interstellar
the actual starship travels in a spacefarers.
bubble of normal space-time. [via New Scientist]
The USS Enterprise also had
deflector shields that could shrug
off photon torpedoes, never mind
some measly hydrogen atoms.
See, we knew that science
fiction could imagineer us out of